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... believe it will ruin me in my next examination . " This youthful outburst is highly sig- nificant in the light of Burke's later constant opposition to the use of scholastic logic and mathematical reasoning in politics . In 1775 he ...
... believe it will ruin me in my next examination . " This youthful outburst is highly sig- nificant in the light of Burke's later constant opposition to the use of scholastic logic and mathematical reasoning in politics . In 1775 he ...
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... believe that man was intrinsically moral by his instincts and that he became corrupted by the external refinements and demands of his civil institutions . Quite the re- verse . As an Aristotelian he believed that man is by nature a ...
... believe that man was intrinsically moral by his instincts and that he became corrupted by the external refinements and demands of his civil institutions . Quite the re- verse . As an Aristotelian he believed that man is by nature a ...
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... believe is our principal glory. How far mere nature would have carried us, we may judge by the example of those animals who still follow her laws, and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce, and arms more terrible ...
... believe is our principal glory. How far mere nature would have carried us, we may judge by the example of those animals who still follow her laws, and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce, and arms more terrible ...
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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 |
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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