Edmund Burke: “He wrote comments upon almost the whole Scripture, and several homilies on the principal festivals of the Church.”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.