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NOTE.

THE present writer published a study on Burke some
twelve years ago. It was almost entirely critical, and in
no sense a narrative. The volume now submitted to the
readers of this Series is biographical rather than critical,
and not more than about a score of pages have been
reproduced in it from the earlier book.
Three pages

(pp. 211-213) have been inserted from an article on
Burke contributed by me to the new edition of the
Encyclopædia Britannica; and I have to thark Messrs.
Black for the great courtesy with which they have allowed
me to transcribe the passage here. These borrowings
from my former self, the reader will perhaps be willing
to excuse, on the old Greek principle that a man may
once say a thing as he would have it said, dis de ovk
évdéxera-he cannot say it twice.

J. M.

ECONOMICAL REFORM-BURKE IN OFFICE-FALL OF HIS PARTY

CHAPTER VI.

BURKE AND HIS FRIENDS

CHAPTER VII.

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