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... Brahmins in London could not find the proper means of practicing the rituals of their faith, and had become the objects of derision of some rationalist freethinkers and wits, Burke placed his home at the disposal of the Hindus.
... Brahmins in London could not find the proper means of practicing the rituals of their faith, and had become the objects of derision of some rationalist freethinkers and wits, Burke placed his home at the disposal of the Hindus.
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As a freshman at Trinity, in his reaction to his text in logic, Burke first revealed what was to become a lifelong deep distrust of speculative mathematical reasoning in political and practical affairs. Like Swift many years earlier, ...
As a freshman at Trinity, in his reaction to his text in logic, Burke first revealed what was to become a lifelong deep distrust of speculative mathematical reasoning in political and practical affairs. Like Swift many years earlier, ...
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So catastrophic was the French Revolution that it compelled Burke, against his will and temperament, to become a political philosopher in defense of the traditional principles of European civilized society.
So catastrophic was the French Revolution that it compelled Burke, against his will and temperament, to become a political philosopher in defense of the traditional principles of European civilized society.
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... not to human reasonings, but to human nature" and to history and moral and legal principles, all these grand themes that run through almost everything he ever wrote become doubly clear in the light of his early satire.
... not to human reasonings, but to human nature" and to history and moral and legal principles, all these grand themes that run through almost everything he ever wrote become doubly clear in the light of his early satire.
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There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. . . . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its ...
There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. . . . The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 19 | |
| 47 | |
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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