Burke (Lecture on Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

When I received the honor of your invitation to speak on Burke, my first feeling, as you will well believe, was one of doubt—doubt whether indeed I had anything that should to say not be a tedious repetition of things adequately said before, unless, avoiding that, I fell into the ungainly and affected originality of a new interpretation. I put that by way of preface and disclaimer, because I shall have to say one or two things about Burke that I should not have said forty years ago; and the...