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... Revolution , that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it . The first British edition sold twelve thousand copies in the first month ; in less. 26 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... Revolution , that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it . The first British edition sold twelve thousand copies in the first month ; in less. 26 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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... less than a year there were eleven editions , and by 1796 over thirty thousand official copies had been sold . For that era , when a book was circulated among many readers and was frequently read to public groups , this was a phenomenal ...
... less than a year there were eleven editions , and by 1796 over thirty thousand official copies had been sold . For that era , when a book was circulated among many readers and was frequently read to public groups , this was a phenomenal ...
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... less than the universal , eternal , and un- changeable Natural Law applied in practice through politics to each particular man , at every moment and in all circumstances , under the constitutional sovereignty of various nations . Since ...
... less than the universal , eternal , and un- changeable Natural Law applied in practice through politics to each particular man , at every moment and in all circumstances , under the constitutional sovereignty of various nations . Since ...
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... less explicit or assumed , are to be found scattered throughout his voluminous writings and recorded speeches . They are never stated abstractly , but are imbedded in his various responses to the particu- lar circumstances and political ...
... less explicit or assumed , are to be found scattered throughout his voluminous writings and recorded speeches . They are never stated abstractly , but are imbedded in his various responses to the particu- lar circumstances and political ...
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... less deformed it . " To the utilitarians , all appeals to " nature " as an ethical norm were anathema . Since it was well known that Burke was an enemy of the revolutionary " rights of man " doctrines , util- itarian writers assumed ...
... less deformed it . " To the utilitarians , all appeals to " nature " as an ethical norm were anathema . Since it was well known that Burke was an enemy of the revolutionary " rights of man " doctrines , util- itarian writers assumed ...
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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