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... Society ( 1792 ) .365 .372 .... 377 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE A Letter on Parliamentary Reform ( 1780 ) .383 Speech on the Duration of Parliaments ( 1780 ) . .386 Speech on the Representation of the Commons in ...
... Society ( 1792 ) .365 .372 .... 377 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE A Letter on Parliamentary Reform ( 1780 ) .383 Speech on the Duration of Parliaments ( 1780 ) . .386 Speech on the Representation of the Commons in ...
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... Society . Began to write The Sublime and Beautiful . Entered at the Middle Temple , London . Arrived in London to study law . A Vindication of Natural Society . Marriage with Jane Nugent . An Account of European Settlements in America ...
... Society . Began to write The Sublime and Beautiful . Entered at the Middle Temple , London . Arrived in London to study law . A Vindication of Natural Society . Marriage with Jane Nugent . An Account of European Settlements in America ...
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... Society . The minute book of this debating society , mainly written by him , reveals his arguments in the undergraduate debates . Clearly , while at Trinity Burke acquired a substantial body of liberal knowledge and some literary skill ...
... Society . The minute book of this debating society , mainly written by him , reveals his arguments in the undergraduate debates . Clearly , while at Trinity Burke acquired a substantial body of liberal knowledge and some literary skill ...
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... Society . This work was an ironical satire on the reli- gious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's " natural " religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political institutions of ...
... Society . This work was an ironical satire on the reli- gious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's " natural " religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political institutions of ...
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... ) and the early volumes of the Annual Register ( 1759-65 ) , his veneration for the historical diversity and continuity of civil society , so like that of Montesquieu , is everywhere evident . He stressed the importance. Introduction 19.
... ) and the early volumes of the Annual Register ( 1759-65 ) , his veneration for the historical diversity and continuity of civil society , so like that of Montesquieu , is everywhere evident . He stressed the importance. Introduction 19.
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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