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... articles in the Annual Register dealing with the same subjects reveals a great similarity in the ideas and temper, so that it is clear the Annual Register remained a valuable literary asset for Burke's political and party interests.
... articles in the Annual Register dealing with the same subjects reveals a great similarity in the ideas and temper, so that it is clear the Annual Register remained a valuable literary asset for Burke's political and party interests.
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Burke soon became the intellectual guide, the public voice in the Commons, and the official pamphleteer of the Rockingham branch of the Whig party. To many of Burke's close literary friends it appeared that 18 SELECTED WRITINGS AND ...
Burke soon became the intellectual guide, the public voice in the Commons, and the official pamphleteer of the Rockingham branch of the Whig party. To many of Burke's close literary friends it appeared that 18 SELECTED WRITINGS AND ...
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To many of Burke's close literary friends it appeared that he was giving up to politics and to party what was meant for mankind. In reality, he was exchanging a precarious belles lettres literary career, and journalistic hack work, ...
To many of Burke's close literary friends it appeared that he was giving up to politics and to party what was meant for mankind. In reality, he was exchanging a precarious belles lettres literary career, and journalistic hack work, ...
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His opposition to the radicals and liberal Whigs who wished to reform the representation of the House of Commons earned him the intense enmity of many members of his own party. The great crisis of the French Revolution further alienated ...
His opposition to the radicals and liberal Whigs who wished to reform the representation of the House of Commons earned him the intense enmity of many members of his own party. The great crisis of the French Revolution further alienated ...
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A Letter To Lord * * * * Shall I venture to say, my lord, that in our late conversation, you were inclined to the party which you adopted rather by the feelings of your good nature, than by the conviction of your judgment?
A Letter To Lord * * * * Shall I venture to say, my lord, that in our late conversation, you were inclined to the party which you adopted rather by the feelings of your good nature, than by the conviction of your judgment?
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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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