(8) 'Life of Perthes,' ii. 216.
(9) Lady Elizabeth Carew.
(10) Francis Horner, in one of his letters, says: "It is among the very
sincere and zealous friends of liberty that you will find the most
perfect specimens of wrongheadedness; men of a dissenting,
provincial cast of virtue--who (according to one of Sharpe's
favourite phrases) WILL drive a wedge the broad end foremost
--utter strangers to all moderation in political business."
--Francis Horner's LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE (1843), ii. 133.
(11) Professor Tyndall on 'Faraday as a Discoverer,' pp. 40-1.
(12) Yet Burke himself; though capable of giving Barry such excellent
advice, was by no means immaculate as regarded his own temper.
When he lay ill at Beaconsfield, Fox, from whom he had become
separated by political differences arising out of the French
Revolution, went down to see his old friend. But Burke would not
grant him an interview; he positively refused to see him. On his
return to town, Fox told his friend Coke the result of his
journey; and when Coke lamented Burke's obstinacy, Fox only
replied, goodnaturedly: "Ah! never mind, Tom; I always find every
Irishman has got a piece of potato in his head." Yet Fox, with
his usual generosity, when he heard of Burke's impending death,
wrote a most kind and cordial letter to Mrs. Burke, expressive of
his grief and sympathy; and when Burke was no more, Fox was the
first to propose that he should be interred with public honours in
Westminster Abbey--which only Burke's own express wish, that he
should be buried at Beaconsfield, prevented being carried out.
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