The justice of this observation is seen in such instances
as the above. It is this breadth and clearness of vision more than anything else
that distinguishes Burke so sharply from his contemporaries.]
[Footnote: 33. three ways. How does the first differ from the third?]
[Footnote: 34. Spoliatis arma supersunt. Though plundered their arms still
remain.]
[Footnote: 35. your speech would betray you. "Thy speech bewrayeth thee"--Matt.
xxvi 73. There is much justice in the observation that Burke is often verbose,
yet such paragraphs as this prove how well he knew to condense and prune his
expression. It is an excellent plan to select from day to day passages of this
sort and commit them to memory for recitation when the speech has been
finished.]
[Footnote: 36. to persuade slaves. Does this suggest one of Byron's poems?]
[Footnote: 37. causes of quarrel. The Assembly of Virginia in 1770 attempted to
restrict the slave trade. Other colonies made the same effort, but Parliament
vetoed these measures, accompanying its action with the blunt statement that the
slave trade was profitable to England.
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