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into ridicule more completely than could be done by a grave argument. Thus it was by the dexterous use of this weapon that Lord North, who could lay claim to none of the impassioned declamation of his Whig opponents, kept his ground in debate. Burke and Fox once took him angrily to task, in the House of Commons, for calling, in a public document, the insurgent colonists by the name of rebels. "Very well," replied North, "if it will please you better, "I will call them gentlemen of the opposi abilities, whose purposes he considered as mischievous as they were well meant. "I do not attack him," said he, "for love of glory, but from a love of utility, as a burgomaster hunts a rat in a Dutch dike for fear it will flood a province." Burke was a great master of lofty contemptuousness. A fine specimen of that is the well-known passage in which he likened the English sympathizers with the French revolution to grasshoppers, filling the air with their importunate chirp, "whilst thousa