Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... political and social subjects , this anthology has enjoyed an unusually favor- able reception by scholars and the general public . When Burke's pen touched paper , invariably something magical and enduring happened , because the political ...
... political and social subjects , this anthology has enjoyed an unusually favor- able reception by scholars and the general public . When Burke's pen touched paper , invariably something magical and enduring happened , because the political ...
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... politics with thought , " so that we read him for his reflective wisdom in combining philosophical principles and historical circumstances and facts . We read Burke not merely for his illumination of past political and historical events ...
... politics with thought , " so that we read him for his reflective wisdom in combining philosophical principles and historical circumstances and facts . We read Burke not merely for his illumination of past political and historical events ...
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... politics . In 1775 he invoked Aristotle in maintaining that neither a priori reasoning nor inductive empirical experience analytically arranged could ever attain a geometric certainty in moral and political affairs : " Man acts from ...
... politics . In 1775 he invoked Aristotle in maintaining that neither a priori reasoning nor inductive empirical experience analytically arranged could ever attain a geometric certainty in moral and political affairs : " Man acts from ...
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... politics . After he entered Parliament in 1766 Burke discovered that even more than in " the days of ignorance " his " en- lightened times " were addicted to an innovating furor logicus aimed at attaining mathematical accuracy in politics ...
... politics . After he entered Parliament in 1766 Burke discovered that even more than in " the days of ignorance " his " en- lightened times " were addicted to an innovating furor logicus aimed at attaining mathematical accuracy in politics ...
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... political career . His great knowledge of law en- hanced his value to the Rockingham Whigs . It is also important to note that his legal erudition , which includes the traditions of Natural Law , the law of nations , English common law ...
... political career . His great knowledge of law en- hanced his value to the Rockingham Whigs . It is also important to note that his legal erudition , which includes the traditions of Natural Law , the law of nations , English common law ...
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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