The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke Political Miscellanies PDF Download

Excerpt from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 3: Political Miscellanies Whether Diogenes the Cynic was a true philosopher, can not easily be determined. He has written nothmg. But the slayings of his which are handed down by others are lively; and may be easily and aptly apphed on many occa sions by those whose wit is not so perfect as thel-rsnemory. This Diogenes (as every one will recollect) was citizen of a little, bleak town situated on the coast of the Euxine, and exposed to all the buffets of that inhospitable sea. He lived at a great distance from those weather-beaten walls, in ease and indolence, and in the midst of literary leisure, when he was informed that his townsmen had condemned him to be banished from Sinope; he answered coolly, And I condemn them to live in Sinope. The gentlemen of a party in which Mr. Burke has always acted, in passing upon him the sentence of retirement,1 have done nothing more than to confirm the sentence which he had long before passed upon himself. When that retreat was choice, which the tribunal of his peers inflict as punish ment, it is plain he does not think their sentence intolerably severe. Whether they, who are to continue in the Sinope which shortly he is to leave, will spend the long years which, I h0pe, remain to them, in a manner more to their satisfac tion, than he shall slide down, in silence and obscurity, the slope of his declining days, is best known to Him who mea sures out years, and days, and fortunes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.