But its careful periods and strangely far-off air lack the eagerness for truth which Rousseau put into his questions.

Brown can neither explain nor can he proffer remedy.

He sees that Pitt is somehow significant; but when he rules out the popular voice as devoid of all importance, he deprives himself of the means whereby to grasp the meaning of the power that Pitt exerted.

Nothing could prove more strongly the exactitude of Burke's _Present Discontents_.

Nothing could better justify the savage indignation of Junius.
Hume was the friend of Montesquieu, though twenty years his junior; and the _Esprit des Lois_ travelled rapidly to Scotland.