In conclusion, it is worth while observing that in the study of a great character, joined with an attempt to estimate it by conventional standards, something must always be left unsaid. Much may be learned of Burke by knowing his record as a partisan, more by a minute inspection of his style as a writer, but beyond all this is the moral tone or attitude of the man himself. To a student of Burke this is the greatest thing about him. It colored every line he wrote, and to it, more than anything else, is due the immense force of the man as a speaker and writer. It was this, more than Burke's great abilities, that justifies Dr. Johnson's famous eulogy: "He is not only the first man in the House of Commons, he is the first man everywhere." A GROUP OF WRITERS COMING IMMEDIATELY AFTER BURKE Wordsworth . . . . 1770-1850 Coleridge . . . . . 1772-1834 Byron . . . . . . . 1788-1824 Shelley . . . . . . 1792-1822 Keats . . . . . . . 1795-1821 Scott . . . . . . . 1771-1832 TOPICS FOR SPECIAL REPORTS 1. "Like Goldsmith, though in a different sphere, Burke belongs both to the old order and the new." Discuss that statement. 2. Burke and the Literary Club. (Boswell's Life of Johnson.) 3. Lives of Burke and Goldsmith. Contrast. 4. An interpretation of ten apothegms selected from the Speech on Conciliation. 5. A study of figures in the Speech on Conciliation. 6. A definition of the terms: "colloquialism" and "idiom" Instances of their use in the Speech on Conciliation. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Burke's Life. John Morley. English Men of Letters Series. 2. Burke. John Morley. An Historical Study. 3. Burke. John Morley. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 4. History of the English People. Green. Vol. IV., pp 193-271. 5 History of Civilization in England. Buckle. Vol I, pp. 326-338 6. The American Revolution. Fiske. Vol. I, Chaps. I., II. 7. Life of Johnson. Boswell. (Use the Index) EDMUND BURKE ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 22, 1775