There is none of the complacent and wise-browed sagacity of Bacon, for Burke's were days of eager personal strife and party fire and civil division.

We are not exhilarated by the cheerfulness, the polish, the fine manners of Bolingbroke, for Burke had an anxious conscience, and was earnest and intent that the good should triumph.

And yet Burke is among the greatest of those who have wrought marvels in the prose of our English tongue.
The influence of Burke on the publicists of the generation after the Revolution was much less considerable than might have been expected.
In Germany, where there has been so much excellent writing about _Staatswissenschaft_, with such poverty and darkness in the wisdom of practical politics, there is a long list of writers who have drawn their inspiration from Burke.

In France, publicists of the sentimental school, like Chateaubriand, and the politico-ecclesiastical school, like De Maistre, fashioned a track of their own.

In England Burke made a deep mark on contemporary opinion during the last years of his life, and then his influence underwent a certain eclipse.