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According to Dr. Johnson, the chief characteristic of Burke's conversation was "copiousness and fertility of allusion, a power of diversifying his matter by placing it in various relations." Johnson admired Burke's sheer weight of ...
According to Dr. Johnson, the chief characteristic of Burke's conversation was "copiousness and fertility of allusion, a power of diversifying his matter by placing it in various relations." Johnson admired Burke's sheer weight of ...
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... a matter of empirical observation and rational analysis, and wholly disconnected from any legal or ethical principles. Professor Weaver interprets Burke's principle of political prudence in the same way as Morley and Lord Acton, ...
... a matter of empirical observation and rational analysis, and wholly disconnected from any legal or ethical principles. Professor Weaver interprets Burke's principle of political prudence in the same way as Morley and Lord Acton, ...
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... the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director, the regulator, the standard of them all. Burke always maintained that "the exercise of competent jurisdiction is a matter of moral prudence," because ...
... the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director, the regulator, the standard of them all. Burke always maintained that "the exercise of competent jurisdiction is a matter of moral prudence," because ...
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But this advantage is in a great measure lost, when a painful, comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter, and which requires a great variety of considerations, is to be made; when we must seek in a profound subject, ...
But this advantage is in a great measure lost, when a painful, comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter, and which requires a great variety of considerations, is to be made; when we must seek in a profound subject, ...
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The first part of the external view of all states, their relation as friends, makes so trifling a figure in history, that I am very sorry to say, it affords me but little matter on which to expatiate. The good offices done by one nation ...
The first part of the external view of all states, their relation as friends, makes so trifling a figure in history, that I am very sorry to say, it affords me but little matter on which to expatiate. The good offices done by one nation ...
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Contents
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| 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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