Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The following passage from the works of Edmund Burke not only resembles the life of Cicero but is as politically and philosophically just as any in the sterling productions of ancient wisdom. "It cannot, at this time, be too often repeated; line upon line, precept upon precept, until it comes into the currency of a proverb." To innovate is not to reform. The French revolutionists left nothing unchanged. The consequences are before us, not in remote history; not in future prognostication: they are about us; they are upon us. They shake the public security; they menace private enjoyment. They dwarf the growth of the young; they break the quiet of the old. If we travel, they break our way. They infest us in town; they pursue us to the country. Our business is interrupted; our repose is troubled; our pleasures are saddened; our very studies are poisoned and perverted, and knowledge is rendered worse than ignorance, by the enormous evils of this dreadful innovation.

The classical scholar will recognize the happy allusion of the orator of Beaconsfield to the famous passage in the Roman plea for Archias. "Delest apta domi, non impediunt foris" etc.