Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... moral , aesthetic , and social temperament and character . Also , beginning in 1741 , his education at Ballitore in County Kildare , at the school of a humane and liberal Quaker , Abraham Shackleton , contributed much toward Burke's ...
... moral , aesthetic , and social temperament and character . Also , beginning in 1741 , his education at Ballitore in County Kildare , at the school of a humane and liberal Quaker , Abraham Shackleton , contributed much toward Burke's ...
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... moral and political affairs : " Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interests ; and not on meta- physical speculations . Aristotle . . . cautions us against this species of delusive geometrical accuracy in moral arguments ...
... moral and political affairs : " Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interests ; and not on meta- physical speculations . Aristotle . . . cautions us against this species of delusive geometrical accuracy in moral arguments ...
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... moral and constitutional basis to English civil liberty under the common law . Among the men who followed Coke was Selden , whom Burke called " a great ornament of the common law . " He also admired the moderate lawyers who produced the ...
... moral and constitutional basis to English civil liberty under the common law . Among the men who followed Coke was Selden , whom Burke called " a great ornament of the common law . " He also admired the moderate lawyers who produced the ...
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... moral and philo- sophical principles of his later political philosophy , based on the Natural Law . Burke's Irish experience under Hamilton was a sound initiation into politics and a necessary prelude to what was probably the most ...
... moral and philo- sophical principles of his later political philosophy , based on the Natural Law . Burke's Irish experience under Hamilton was a sound initiation into politics and a necessary prelude to what was probably the most ...
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... moral law , he set forth the vital ideas and principles of his political philos- ophy , which has continued to influence men throughout history long after the partisan causes which triumphed over him were buried in the graveyard of dead ...
... moral law , he set forth the vital ideas and principles of his political philos- ophy , which has continued to influence men throughout history long after the partisan causes which triumphed over him were buried in the graveyard of dead ...
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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