It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.[412:2]
Prior's Life of Burke.[412:3]
He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.[412:4]
On Pitt's First Speech, Feb. 26, 1781. From Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342.
Footnotes
[407:1] Boston edition. 1865-1867.
[407:2] In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.—Rochefoucauld: Reflections, xv.
[407:3] Lord Brougham says of Bacon, "He it was who first employed the well-known phrase of 'the wisdom of our ancestors.'"
Sydney Smith: Plymley's Letters, letter v. Lord Eldon: On Sir Samuel Romilly's Bill, 1815. Cicero: De Legibus, ii. 2, 3.