Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... become the objects of derision of some rationalist freethinkers and wits , Burke placed his home at the disposal of the Hindus . Burke and his brother Richard were brought up in the Church of Eng- land ; his sister was brought up as a ...
... become the objects of derision of some rationalist freethinkers and wits , Burke placed his home at the disposal of the Hindus . Burke and his brother Richard were brought up in the Church of Eng- land ; his sister was brought up as a ...
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... become a lifelong deep distrust of speculative mathematical reasoning in political and practical affairs . Like Swift many years earlier , he reacted violently against Bergers- dicius's Institutionum libri duo ( Leyden , 1626 ) . This ...
... become a lifelong deep distrust of speculative mathematical reasoning in political and practical affairs . Like Swift many years earlier , he reacted violently against Bergers- dicius's Institutionum libri duo ( Leyden , 1626 ) . This ...
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... become a political philosopher in defense of the traditional prin- ciples of European civilized society . Undoubtedly , Burke achieved the most notable success of his life with the publication of his justly famous work , Reflections on ...
... become a political philosopher in defense of the traditional prin- ciples of European civilized society . Undoubtedly , Burke achieved the most notable success of his life with the publication of his justly famous work , Reflections on ...
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... become doubly clear in the light of his early satire . It is worth noting that the more than forty pamphleteers who replied to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) , put forth in perfect seriousness many ideas that ...
... become doubly clear in the light of his early satire . It is worth noting that the more than forty pamphleteers who replied to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) , put forth in perfect seriousness many ideas that ...
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... becomes the sober aspect of truth . . . . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the cre- ation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination ...
... becomes the sober aspect of truth . . . . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the cre- ation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination ...
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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