The devil has two horns
J.G.A. Pocock, 24 February 1994
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Minerva, 692 pp., £8.99, September 1993,0 7493 9721 7 Show More
by Conor Cruise O’Brien.
Minerva, 692 pp., £8.99, September 1993,
“... the purpose – O’Brien very persuasively suggests – of tying up the energies of Burke and Sheridan in an enterprise which led away from the floor of the Commons; and impeachment itself was so imprecise a species of prosecution that one wonders what it was meant to achieve beyond its own grandeur as a public inquest and event. Impeachments in the past ... ”