"Mr. Burke has made himself very considerable. He is the most ingenious debater I ever heard, and at least as strong in the reply as in the opening."
— Edmund Burke

January 1, 1970

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Lord George Sackville to General Irwin (2 March 1757), quoted in Report on the Manuscripts of Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, of Drayton House, Northamptonshire, Volume I (1904), p. 120