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AMERICA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE A Short Account of a Late Short Administration (1766) 117 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) . . .121 Speech on Conciliation (1775) 176 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777) 223 III ...
AMERICA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE A Short Account of a Late Short Administration (1766) 117 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) . . .121 Speech on Conciliation (1775) 176 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777) 223 III ...
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Although he succeeded in impeaching Warren Hastings, Governor General of India, for misgovernment in India, the trial ended in acquittal before the House of Lords, and at best Burke's efforts served as a warning to future British ...
Although he succeeded in impeaching Warren Hastings, Governor General of India, for misgovernment in India, the trial ended in acquittal before the House of Lords, and at best Burke's efforts served as a warning to future British ...
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So clearly and eloquently did he analyze the basic issues and social theories raised by the Revolution, that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it. The first British edition ...
So clearly and eloquently did he analyze the basic issues and social theories raised by the Revolution, that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it. The first British edition ...
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It was not necessary to appeal to transcendental moral standards in every political conflict; such appeals were reserved for extraordinary violations of the moral law, as in the cases of British misrule in Ireland and India, ...
It was not necessary to appeal to transcendental moral standards in every political conflict; such appeals were reserved for extraordinary violations of the moral law, as in the cases of British misrule in Ireland and India, ...
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... of expediency and a deadly enemy of Natural Law, it is not surprising that in many contemporary reference and textbooks he is commonly still enlisted as the foremost British political thinker opposed to belief in the Natural Law.
... of expediency and a deadly enemy of Natural Law, it is not surprising that in many contemporary reference and textbooks he is commonly still enlisted as the foremost British political thinker opposed to belief in the Natural Law.
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Contents
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An Abridgment of English History 1757 | 76 |
Selections from Book Reviews in the Annual Register | 104 |
A Short Account of a Late Short Administration 1766 | 117 |
Speech on Conciliation 1775 | 176 |
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1777 | 223 |
Tract on the Popery Laws 1765 | 253 |
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland 1782 | 274 |
A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe 1792 | 288 |
A Letter to Richard Burke 1793 | 320 |
A Letter to William Smith 1795 | 330 |
Speech on Economical Reform 1780 | 341 |
Speech on the Middlesex Election 1771 | 363 |
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| Title | Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Peter James Stanlis |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 141282222X, 9781412822220 |
| Length | 585 pages |
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