Excerpt from Reply to the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. To a Noble Lord Genius and confummate Virtue, fpurned by the hoofs of Venality and Barbarifm, would excite in the bofom of fienfibility. Some ebullitions of refentment, fome (allies of vexation, fome di grefiions of complacent vanity, lhould have been conceded to a long career of patriotic ferviccs, to extraordinary accomplilhments of intelleet, to an univerfal elegance of literature, and to a confpicuous, but pardonable, confcioufnefs of high defert. All but barbarians, unknown to letters and eftranged from humanity, would have weighed the failings of the man with the fupreme endowments of the orator, and have found thofe but as the dufi of the balance in competition. A youthful tribe, jufi emanci pated from fcholafiic difcipline, might have re fieeted alfo, ifunimp1'eited by better motives, on thofe ingenuous times of Virtuous antiquity, when a precedenc'y of years claimed, and re ceived, the veneration of a father But fcanty was their virtue, and ears to rapture. 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.