The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 33
plaisance wasvery considerable: he loved praise, and even praisedhimself; but it was with so much frankness, andwith so little contempt of others, that it was neverdisagreeable. Indeed, when we consider the extentof his reputation, the credit of his works, and theattention with which they were… … EDMUND BURKE. Edmund Burke, the illustrious subject of this me-moir, as a writer and a statesman, was born atJDublin,in 1730. His father was a respectable attorney and aProtestant. He received his education from AbrahamShackleton, a quaker, at Ballylore, near Carlow. In1746, he entered as a scholar…
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