If my memory does not deceive me, a person of no slight consideration held the office of patent hereditary cook to an Earl of Warwick: the Earl of Warwick's soups, I fear, were not the better for the dignity of his kitchen.
Burke humorously illustrates the ridiculousness of hereditary positions in the past.
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