Solid Achievement

Solid Achievement Edmund Burke, New York Agent (with his letters to the New York Assembly and intimate correspond- ence with Charles O’Hara), by Ross J. S. Hoffman. 632 pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. $6.50 Avery silly quibble is carried on in every decade, by persons who ought to know better, as to why “Burke favored the American Revolution and _ Opposed the French Revolution.” In _ plain fact, Burke never favored any revolution, except for that of 1688, _ Which he considered a “revolution not _ Made, but prevented.”

Burke’s real view of American _ affairs on the eve of 1775 is made

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Solid Achievement Edmund Burke, New York Agent (with his letters to the New York Assembly and intimate correspond- ence with Charles O’Hara), by Ross J. S. Hoffman. 632 pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. $6.50 Avery silly quibble is carried on in every decade, by persons who ought to know better, as to why “Burke favored the American Revolution and _ Opposed the French Revolution.” In _ plain fact, Burke never favored any revolution, except for that of 1688, _ Which he considered a “revolution not _ Made, but prevented.”

Burke’s real view of American _ affairs on the eve of 1775 is made