Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 271

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magnates the whole concern having axes to grind, he managed to saddle the taxpayers with, is a failure, your noses tell. That is an unerring test. Barring, that your nose won’t smell. And is it upon that that Mr Hobbs is to ground his authority to talk magisterially to the public? Away with such overweening presumption.

Mr Hobbs may be an excellent judge and so may Mr Ollivier of how to wind up family affairs and business to the best advantage, which must be admitted to be according to circumstances excellent qualities; and Mr Hobbs, as a tailor, may excel in the proper way of obtaining Government contracts for policemens’ and gaolers’ uniforms, and know the most economical and profitable way in which to carry them out, but those qualifications are not such as tend to make a City Councillor better than other men. Let others have a ride Freddy.

Letter to a tailor.