text:  The dashing rhetoric and headlong statements of Bolingbroke; his singular affluence of language and his easy disregard of fact; the boundless lavishing and overflow of an excitable and glowing mind on topics in which prejudice and passion equally hurried him onward and which the bitter recollections of thwarted ambition made him regard as things to be trampled on if his own fame was to survive was incomparably transferred by Burke to his own pages