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... BRITISH EMPIRE A Short Account of a Late Short Administration ( 1766 ) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ( 1770 ) .117 .121 Speech on Conciliation ( 1775 ) .176 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ( 1777 ) .223 III ...
... BRITISH EMPIRE A Short Account of a Late Short Administration ( 1766 ) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ( 1770 ) .117 .121 Speech on Conciliation ( 1775 ) .176 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ( 1777 ) .223 III ...
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... British gover- nors . His opposition to the radicals and liberal Whigs who wished to reform the representation of the House of Commons earned him the intense enmity of many members of his own party . The great crisis of the French ...
... British gover- nors . His opposition to the radicals and liberal Whigs who wished to reform the representation of the House of Commons earned him the intense enmity of many members of his own party . The great crisis of the French ...
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... that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it . The first British edition sold twelve thousand copies in the first month ; in less. 26 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it . The first British edition sold twelve thousand copies in the first month ; in less. 26 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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... British misrule in Ireland and India , and the Jacobin tyranny in France . It was the cardinal error of Morley and the utilitarians , and even of Christians such as Lord Acton , that they interpreted Burke's pru- dence as identical with ...
... British misrule in Ireland and India , and the Jacobin tyranny in France . It was the cardinal error of Morley and the utilitarians , and even of Christians such as Lord Acton , that they interpreted Burke's pru- dence as identical with ...
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... British political thinker opposed to belief in the Natural Law . " The reaction of the nineteenth century against natural law formulae , " wrote Georges Gurvitch in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , " is traceable ulti- mately ...
... British political thinker opposed to belief in the Natural Law . " The reaction of the nineteenth century against natural law formulae , " wrote Georges Gurvitch in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , " is traceable ulti- mately ...
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 |
IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION | 251 |
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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