Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... never concluded his formal legal studies , and was never admitted to the bar , his mastery of the laws of Europe and England was of the greatest practical value to him throughout his later political career . His great knowledge of law ...
... never concluded his formal legal studies , and was never admitted to the bar , his mastery of the laws of Europe and England was of the greatest practical value to him throughout his later political career . His great knowledge of law ...
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... never completed beyond the reign of King John , and was published posthumously in 1811. However , through such literary activities , and his friendship with the Dods- leys , in his first decade in England Burke became well known among ...
... never completed beyond the reign of King John , and was published posthumously in 1811. However , through such literary activities , and his friendship with the Dods- leys , in his first decade in England Burke became well known among ...
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... never losing sight of principles , is to be guided by circumstances ; and judging contrary to the exigencies of the moment he may ruin his country for ever . " This is the key state- ment behind Burke's definition of the politician as ...
... never losing sight of principles , is to be guided by circumstances ; and judging contrary to the exigencies of the moment he may ruin his country for ever . " This is the key state- ment behind Burke's definition of the politician as ...
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... never presented in a sys- tematic treatise . His essential ethical and political beliefs , more or less explicit or assumed , are to be found scattered throughout his voluminous writings and recorded speeches . They are never stated ...
... never presented in a sys- tematic treatise . His essential ethical and political beliefs , more or less explicit or assumed , are to be found scattered throughout his voluminous writings and recorded speeches . They are never stated ...
Page 40
... never be resolved on the political level alone , within history , without recourse to the moral principles which un- derlie his politics . He changed his partisan political front , but he never changed his moral ground . The ...
... never be resolved on the political level alone , within history , without recourse to the moral principles which un- derlie his politics . He changed his partisan political front , but he never changed his moral ground . The ...
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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