Observe how effectively Burke uses his
wide knowledge of history.]
[Footnote: 38. ex vi termini. From the force of the word.]
[Footnote: 39. abstract right. Compare with 14; also 8. Point out connection in
thought.]
[Footnote: 40. Act of Henry the Eighth. Burke alludes to this in his letter to
the sheriffs of Bristol in the following terms: "To try a man under this Act is
to condemn him unheard. A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship
hold; thence he is vomited into a dungeon on land, loaded with irons,
unfurnished with money, unsupported by friends, three thousand miles from all
means of calling upon or confronting evidence, where no one local circumstance
that tends to detect perjury can possibly be judged of;--such a person may be
executed according to form, but he can never be tried according to justice."]
[Footnote: 41. correctly right. Explain.]
[Footnote: 42. Paradise Lost, II., 392-394.]
[Footnote: 43. This passage should be carefully studied. Burke's theory of
government is given in the Conciliation by just such lines as these. Refer to
other instances of principles which he considers fundamental in matters of
government.
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