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His bill in 1780 to reform the abuses of royal patronage was defeated, although a modified and largely ineffectual measure was passed in 1782. After Rockingham's death in that year, Burke's once eminent position in the Introduction 21.
His bill in 1780 to reform the abuses of royal patronage was defeated, although a modified and largely ineffectual measure was passed in 1782. After Rockingham's death in that year, Burke's once eminent position in the Introduction 21.
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Writers who have converted the empirical and historical elements in his thought into his basic political philosophy have invariably reduced the scope and complexity of his thought to the measure of their own ideas and temperament.
Writers who have converted the empirical and historical elements in his thought into his basic political philosophy have invariably reduced the scope and complexity of his thought to the measure of their own ideas and temperament.
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In Burke's attempted economical reform of 1780, he distinguished between his principle of prudence and moral weakness or equivocation: It is much more easy to reconcile this measure to 34 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
In Burke's attempted economical reform of 1780, he distinguished between his principle of prudence and moral weakness or equivocation: It is much more easy to reconcile this measure to 34 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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It is much more easy to reconcile this measure to humanity, than to bring it to any agreement with prudence. I do not mean that little, selfish, pitiful, bastard thing, which sometimes goes by the name of a family in which it is not ...
It is much more easy to reconcile this measure to humanity, than to bring it to any agreement with prudence. I do not mean that little, selfish, pitiful, bastard thing, which sometimes goes by the name of a family in which it is not ...
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But this advantage is in a great measure lost, when a painful, comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter, ... not only for arguments, but for new materials of argument, their measures and their method of arrangement; ...
But this advantage is in a great measure lost, when a painful, comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter, ... not only for arguments, but for new materials of argument, their measures and their method of arrangement; ...
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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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