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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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On one occasion when Johnson was ill he refused to see Burke because he feared the excitement of Burke's talk would cause a relapse. Johnson added that if a stranger were to stop under a shed during a shower, and found himself with ...
On one occasion when Johnson was ill he refused to see Burke because he feared the excitement of Burke's talk would cause a relapse. Johnson added that if a stranger were to stop under a shed during a shower, and found himself with ...
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... when the Rockingham Whigs were in power, most of his twenty-nine years in the House of Commons were spent in opposition to the administrations of George III, on behalf of unpopular causes which almost always, at least at the time, ...
... when the Rockingham Whigs were in power, most of his twenty-nine years in the House of Commons were spent in opposition to the administrations of George III, on behalf of unpopular causes which almost always, at least at the time, ...
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By the vulgar standards of immediate success and external appearances, it would seem that Burke's political career was largely wasted in serving lost causes. But in his constant efforts to establish an orderly, just, and free society, ...
By the vulgar standards of immediate success and external appearances, it would seem that Burke's political career was largely wasted in serving lost causes. But in his constant efforts to establish an orderly, just, and free society, ...
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Reliance on the high and reverend authorities in the tradition of Morley has caused many eminent writers of textbooks in history and politics to be overwhelmed in "the great Serbonian bog" of positivist scholarship on Burke.
Reliance on the high and reverend authorities in the tradition of Morley has caused many eminent writers of textbooks in history and politics to be overwhelmed in "the great Serbonian bog" of positivist scholarship on Burke.
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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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