But Mr. Wilberforce is not a party-man.

Nobody believes that the thing would ever have been done; but the lively and repeated discussion of it shows how the feelings of the ignorant are perverted, and the passions of party-men are stimulated in Ireland, when unscrupulous leaders arise, proposing irrational projects.

Wit, poet, prose-man, party-man, translator H[unt], your best title yet is INDICATOR.

to, ii. 136, n. 6; style, i. 439; Swift's style, ii. 191, n. 3; Tory by chance, iv. 194; v. 272; Toryism, growth of his, iv. 194, n. 1; touchstones of party-men, i. 354, n. 1; tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 238, n. 2; Treatise of Human Nature, i. 127, n. 1; Tytler, attacked by, v. 274; 'Voltaire, an echo of,' ii. 53; mentioned, ii. 160, n. 2.

p. 120.), I may also refer to Dr. King's Anecdotes; he says, "I knew Burnet; he was a furious party-man, and easily imposed on by any lying spirit of his own faction; but he was a better pastor than any man who is now seated on the Bishop's bench.

"My uncle," writes Sterne, describing their subsequent rupture, "quarrelled with me because I would not write paragraphs in the newspapers; though he was a party-man, I was not, and detested such dirty work, thinking it beneath me.