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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 nature" made him distrust a merely rational or logical approach to any subject, and to suspect ...
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 nature" made him distrust a merely rational or logical approach to any subject, and to suspect ...
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Burke also fought for twenty-nine years against the whole English system of government which proscribed Ireland and prevented her from enjoying the benefits of the English constitution. What little economic freedom Ireland gained during ...
Burke also fought for twenty-nine years against the whole English system of government which proscribed Ireland and prevented her from enjoying the benefits of the English constitution. What little economic freedom Ireland gained during ...
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... violated "the whole system of policy on which the general state of Europe has hitherto stood," that the revolutionists wished to make themselves "paramount to every known principle of public law in Europe," and that they sought to ...
... violated "the whole system of policy on which the general state of Europe has hitherto stood," that the revolutionists wished to make themselves "paramount to every known principle of public law in Europe," and that they sought to ...
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The path charted by Morley' s interpretation of Burke was followed, with some slight variations, by William Lecky, Sir Leslie Stephen, and a whole host of Victorian and early twentieth-century writers in the liberal tradition of ...
The path charted by Morley' s interpretation of Burke was followed, with some slight variations, by William Lecky, Sir Leslie Stephen, and a whole host of Victorian and early twentieth-century writers in the liberal tradition of ...
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Burke's opposition to the theory of natural rights and to the use of nature as the norm in political theory was ... a conviction unshaken during his whole career." In 1940, John H. Randall repeated this point, and during the 1940's two ...
Burke's opposition to the theory of natural rights and to the use of nature as the norm in political theory was ... a conviction unshaken during his whole career." In 1940, John H. Randall repeated this point, and during the 1940's two ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 19 | |
| 47 | |
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 |
Tract on the Popery Laws 1765 | 253 |
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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| Title | Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Peter James Stanlis |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 141282222X, 9781412822220 |
| Length | 585 pages |
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