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Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs
Letters Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs Author:Edmund Burke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland Law / General Law / International Philosophy / Political Political Science / General Religion / Christianity / Catholic Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.... more » It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: III. A LETTER to the Honourable Charles James Fox. My Dear Charles, I Am on many accounts exceedingly pleased with- your journey to Ireland. I do not think it was possible to dispose better of the interval between this and the meeting of Parliament. I told you as much in the same general terms by the post. My opinion of the infidelity of that conveyance hindered me from being particular. I now sit down with malice prepense to kill you with a very long letter, and must take my chance for some safe method of conveying the dose. Before I say anything to you of the place you are in, or the business of it -- on which, by the way, a great deal might be said -- I will turn myself to the concluding part of your letter from Chatsworth. You are sensible that I do not differ from you in many things, and most certainly I do not dissent from the main of your doctrine concerning the heresy of depending upon contingencies. You must recollect how uniform my sentiments have been on that subject. I have ever wished a settled plan of our own, founded in the very essence of the American business, wholly unconnected with the events of the war, and framed in such a manner as to keep up our credit and maintain our system at home, in spite of anything which may happen abroad. I am now convinced, by a long and somewhat vexatious experience, that such a plan is absolutely impracticable. I think with you that some faults in the...« less