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. It is an excellent plan to select from day to day passages of this sort and commit them to memory for recitation when the speech has been finished.

45, 10. to persuade slaves. Does this suggest one of Byron's poems?

45, 23. causes of quarrel. The Assembly of Virginia in 1770 attempted to restrict the slave trade. Other colonies made the same effort, but Parliament vetoed these measures, accompanying its action with the blunt statement that the slave trade was profitable to England. Observe how effectively Burke uses his wide knowledge of history.

48, 18. ex vi termini. From the force of the word.

49, 23. abstract right. Compare with 11, 8; also 8, 1. Point out connection in thought.

50, 20. Act of Henry the Eighth. Burke alludes to this in his letter to the sheriffs of Bristol in the following terms: "To try a man under this Act is to condemn him unheard. A person is brought hither in the dungeon of a ship hold; thence he is vomited into a dungeon on land, loaded with irons, unfurnished with money, unsupported by friends, three thousand miles from all means of calling upon or confronting evidence, where no one local circumstance that tends to detect perjury can possibly be judged of;—such a person may be executed according to form, but he can never be tried according to justice."

51, 17. correctly right. Explain.

53, 16. Paradise Lost, II., 392–394.

53, 18–24; 54, 1–10. This passage should be carefully studied. Burke's theory of government is given in the Conciliation by