Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... religious background played a key role in determin- ing his whole intellectual , moral , aesthetic , and social ... religion of his mother and maternal uncles . Burke always remained a loyal adher- ent of the Church of England , and ...
... religious background played a key role in determin- ing his whole intellectual , moral , aesthetic , and social ... religion of his mother and maternal uncles . Burke always remained a loyal adher- ent of the Church of England , and ...
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... religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political institutions of man . Burke's imitation of Boling- broke's famous prose style was such a masterful parody that many readers ...
... religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political institutions of man . Burke's imitation of Boling- broke's famous prose style was such a masterful parody that many readers ...
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... religion , laws , manners , and cus- toms of basic European institutions . The principles and the fanatical spirit of the French Revolution were precisely the things Burke had always feared and opposed . The Revolution , he noted in the ...
... religion , laws , manners , and cus- toms of basic European institutions . The principles and the fanatical spirit of the French Revolution were precisely the things Burke had always feared and opposed . The Revolution , he noted in the ...
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... religious and ethical principles . But before do- ing this it is necessary to understand in what sense " history is a pre- ceptor ... religion , nationality , and race ; by institutions , customs , manners , and habits ; by all the civil ...
... religious and ethical principles . But before do- ing this it is necessary to understand in what sense " history is a pre- ceptor ... religion , nationality , and race ; by institutions , customs , manners , and habits ; by all the civil ...
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... religion and right reason . Burke's politics involves much more than his initial response and subsequent method of reasoning on concrete political situa- tions . Without his faith in the Natural Law , his responses and rea- soning in ...
... religion and right reason . Burke's politics involves much more than his initial response and subsequent method of reasoning on concrete political situa- tions . Without his faith in the Natural Law , his responses and rea- soning in ...
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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