"An ancient writer, Plutarch, I think it is, quotes some verses on the eloquence of Pericles, who is called "the only orator that left stings in the minds of his hearers." Like his, the eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stings that have penetrated more than skin-deep into my mind; and never can they be extracted by all the surgery of murder; never can the throbbings they have created, be assuaged by all the emollient cataplasms of robbery and confiscation."
Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France [Letters on a Regicide Peace]
At least 14 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1796, 1797).<br> 
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Text from <u>Select Works of Edmund Burke. A New Imprint of the Payne Edition</u>, Foreword and Biographical Note by Francis Canavan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999). Vol. 3. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/658">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France</u> (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=o9RbAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;