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Page xi
... thought and brilliance in expression . Only an editor of Burke's writings and speeches , who has experienced the painful task of deleting passages and omitting entire works , can appreciate the full force of Hazlitt's perceptive ...
... thought and brilliance in expression . Only an editor of Burke's writings and speeches , who has experienced the painful task of deleting passages and omitting entire works , can appreciate the full force of Hazlitt's perceptive ...
Page xii
... 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 , but for the ...
... 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 , but for the ...
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... thought and style appealed deeply to him , and quoted or al- luded to Cicero more frequently than to any ancient writer . Aris- totle's political thought also left a permanent positive effect on him . In 1746 , as a junior , he ...
... thought and style appealed deeply to him , and quoted or al- luded to Cicero more frequently than to any ancient writer . Aris- totle's political thought also left a permanent positive effect on him . In 1746 , as a junior , he ...
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... legal and constitu- tional thought was strongly reflected in the large number of book reviews on legal works which he wrote for the early numbers of the Annual Register . Burke certainly reviewed the following books on. Introduction 5.
... legal and constitu- tional thought was strongly reflected in the large number of book reviews on legal works which he wrote for the early numbers of the Annual Register . Burke certainly reviewed the following books on. Introduction 5.
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... thought him superior to Johnson , both as a thinker and conversationalist . Johnson himself , despite his partisan political dif- ferences with Burke , paid a generous tribute to his friend and called him " the first man in the House of ...
... thought him superior to Johnson , both as a thinker and conversationalist . Johnson himself , despite his partisan political dif- ferences with Burke , paid a generous tribute to his friend and called him " the first man in the House of ...
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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