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... rules . " In Britain , despite an adverse review by his friend Goldsmith in the Monthly Review ( May 1757 ) , Burke's pioneering effort brought him considerable immediate recognition . Burke's Sublime and Beautiful went through nine ...
... rules . " In Britain , despite an adverse review by his friend Goldsmith in the Monthly Review ( May 1757 ) , Burke's pioneering effort brought him considerable immediate recognition . Burke's Sublime and Beautiful went through nine ...
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... rule . . . expresses the character of his mind . A thought , an image , a sentiment , and all bearing upon action— it gives us an intimation that the writer who set forth such a canon was a complete nature , no fragment of a man and ...
... rule . . . expresses the character of his mind . A thought , an image , a sentiment , and all bearing upon action— it gives us an intimation that the writer who set forth such a canon was a complete nature , no fragment of a man and ...
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... rule more general . " To Burke , " no moral questions are ever abstract questions . " Prudence was for him not ... rules of prudence . Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral , but she is the director ...
... rule more general . " To Burke , " no moral questions are ever abstract questions . " Prudence was for him not ... rules of prudence . Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral , but she is the director ...
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... rule of Hastings in Bengal — it became explicit . Professor Hoffman was among the first writers to realize , and the first to say in print , that the foundations of Burke's political philos- ophy rested upon the Natural Law . Since 1948 ...
... rule of Hastings in Bengal — it became explicit . Professor Hoffman was among the first writers to realize , and the first to say in print , that the foundations of Burke's political philos- ophy rested upon the Natural Law . Since 1948 ...
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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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