Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... sense of proportion has been observed in the length of the selections on each subject . From the works that have had to be abridged , I have often omit- ted passages containing purely local references , digressions that in- clude inert ...
... sense of proportion has been observed in the length of the selections on each subject . From the works that have had to be abridged , I have often omit- ted passages containing purely local references , digressions that in- clude inert ...
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... sense of the pieties of life , and helped to shape his lifelong intense dislike of religious intolerance . Throughout his life Burke revealed a human- ity toward all forms of sincere religious belief . For example , in 1781 , when he ...
... sense of the pieties of life , and helped to shape his lifelong intense dislike of religious intolerance . Throughout his life Burke revealed a human- ity toward all forms of sincere religious belief . For example , in 1781 , when he ...
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... sense of Europe as a great com- monwealth of nations with a common moral and legal inheritance , and his faith in the historical processes of tradition . It is therefore of the greatest importance , in reading Burke's writings and ...
... sense of Europe as a great com- monwealth of nations with a common moral and legal inheritance , and his faith in the historical processes of tradition . It is therefore of the greatest importance , in reading Burke's writings and ...
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... senses , his intuitional reason , and his emotions and imagination . His desire to grasp the whole reality of life lay behind his complex style of expression . His conviction that " reason is but a part of human na- ture " made him ...
... senses , his intuitional reason , and his emotions and imagination . His desire to grasp the whole reality of life lay behind his complex style of expression . His conviction that " reason is but a part of human na- ture " made him ...
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... senses and emo- tions , but the mere presence of these ingredients in his speeches and writings did not , in themselves ... sense to the metaphysical essence of his subject or theme , so that at once they saw , understood , and felt ...
... senses and emo- tions , but the mere presence of these ingredients in his speeches and writings did not , in themselves ... sense to the metaphysical essence of his subject or theme , so that at once they saw , understood , and felt ...
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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