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MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1902

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Printed 1888. Reprinted 1892, 1897, 1902.

(A Library Edition of the book published in the "English Men of Letters Series")

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Chennegut

Still Libe

NOTE

THE present writer published a study on Burke
some twenty years ago.
It was almost entirely
critical, and in no sense a narrative. The volume
that is now submitted to my readers first appeared
in the series of English Men of Letters. It is
biographical rather than critical, and not more
than about a score of pages have been reproduced
in it from the earlier book. Three pages have
been inserted from an article on Burke contributed
by me to the new edition of the Encyclopædia
Britannica; and I have to thank Messrs. Black
for the great courtesy with which they have
allowed me to transcribe the passage here. These
borrowings from my former self, the reader will
perhaps be willing to excuse, on the old Greek
principle that a man may once say a thing as
he would have it said, δὶς δὲ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται—he
can hardly say it twice.

1888.

J. M.