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Undoubtedly, his initial interest in the law began at least by 1750, but his legal erudition grew and was well advanced long before he entered politics. Burke's knowledge of the law is evidenced in the volumes in his library, ...
Undoubtedly, his initial interest in the law began at least by 1750, but his legal erudition grew and was well advanced long before he entered politics. Burke's knowledge of the law is evidenced in the volumes in his library, ...
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Fortunately, the work appeared when the Seven Years' War had brought political interest in America to a high level, so that in November 1757 a second edition was published, and before the end of the American Revolution seven editions ...
Fortunately, the work appeared when the Seven Years' War had brought political interest in America to a high level, so that in November 1757 a second edition was published, and before the end of the American Revolution seven editions ...
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Certain twentieth-century historians, particularly of the Namier school, have sometimes charged Burke with pure political expediency and calculated self-interest in the arguments he advanced in defense of the Rockingham party.
Certain twentieth-century historians, particularly of the Namier school, have sometimes charged Burke with pure political expediency and calculated self-interest in the arguments he advanced in defense of the Rockingham party.
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For as subordination, or, in other words, the reciprocation of tyranny and slavery, is requisite to support these societies; the interest, the ambition, the malice, or the revenge, nay, even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among ...
For as subordination, or, in other words, the reciprocation of tyranny and slavery, is requisite to support these societies; the interest, the ambition, the malice, or the revenge, nay, even the whim and caprice of one ruling man among ...
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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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