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... Natural Law by Aristotle , such as his Ethics and Politics and by Cicero , such as De officiis and De legibus , all of ... Nature and Nations , and Vattel's Droit des gens . In a parliamentary report Burke once wrote that " much has been ...
... Natural Law by Aristotle , such as his Ethics and Politics and by Cicero , such as De officiis and De legibus , all of ... Nature and Nations , and Vattel's Droit des gens . In a parliamentary report Burke once wrote that " much has been ...
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... Natural Society . This work was an ironical satire on the reli- gious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's " natural " religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political ...
... Natural Society . This work was an ironical satire on the reli- gious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's " natural " religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political ...
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... Nature comprehends , according to her man- ner of combining . " In a sketch called " The Character of a Fine Gentleman , " written between 1750—54 and now found in the Burke papers in the Sheffield City Library in England , he wrote ...
... Nature comprehends , according to her man- ner of combining . " In a sketch called " The Character of a Fine Gentleman , " written between 1750—54 and now found in the Burke papers in the Sheffield City Library in England , he wrote ...
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... Natural Law as an ethical norm , provided him with the two most important positive ingredients in his mature political ... nature , before history or without civil society . His early literary writings prove that even before he entered ...
... Natural Law as an ethical norm , provided him with the two most important positive ingredients in his mature political ... nature , before history or without civil society . His early literary writings prove that even before he entered ...
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... natural rights and to the use of nature as the norm in political theory was . . . a conviction unshaken during his whole career . " In 1940 , John H. Randall repeated this point , and during the 1940's two other writers on Burke , Annie ...
... natural rights and to the use of nature as the norm in political theory was . . . a conviction unshaken during his whole career . " In 1940 , John H. Randall repeated this point , and during the 1940's two other writers on Burke , Annie ...
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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