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THE

BEAUTIES

OF THE LATE

Right Hon. EDMUND BURKE.

VOL. II.

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THE

BEAUTIES

OF THE LATE

Right Hon. EDMUND BURKE,

SELECTED FROM THE

WRITINGS, &c. OF THAT EXTRAORDINARY MAN,

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

Including the following celebrated Political Characters, drawn by himself;

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THE

BEAUTIES OF BURKE.

LAW-As a Science of methodized and artificial
Equity, abolished in France.

A Government of the nature of that fet up at our very
door (France) has never been hitherto feen or even
imagined in Europe. What our relation to it will be
cannot be judged by other relations. It is a ferious
thing to have a connection with a people who live only
under pofitive, arbitrary, and changeable inftitutions;
and those not perfected nor fupplied, nor explained
by any common acknowledged rule of moral fcience.
I remember that in one of my last conversations with
the late Lord Camden, we were ftruck much in the
fame manner with the abolition in France of the law,
as a fcience of methodized and artificial equity. France,
fince her revolution, is under the fway of a fect, whose
leaders have deliberately, at one ftroke, demolished
the whole body of that jurisprudence which France
had pretty nearly in common with other civilized coun-
tries. In that jurifprudence were contained the ele-
ments and principles of the law of nations, the great
ligament of mankind. With the law they have of
course destroyed all feminaries in which jurisprudence
was taught, as well as all the corporations eftablished
for its confervation. I have not heard of any coun-
try, whether in Europe or Afia, or even in Africa, on
this fide of Mount Atlas, which is wholly without some
fuch colleges and fuch corporations, except France.
No man, in a public or private concern, can divine
by what rule or principle her judgments are to be
directed; nor is there to be found a Profeffor in any
Univerfity, or a Practitioner in any Court, who will
hazard an opinion of what is or is not law in France,
in any cafe whatever. They have not only annulled
all their old treaties, but they have renounced the law
of nations, from whence treaties have their force.

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