Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... 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 distrust a merely rational or logical approach to any subject , and to suspect easy definitions ...
... 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 distrust a merely rational or logical approach to any subject , and to suspect easy definitions ...
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... whole English system of government which pro- scribed Ireland and prevented her from enjoying the benefits of the English constitution . What little economic freedom Ireland gained during the eighteenth century , to develop her industry ...
... whole English system of government which pro- scribed Ireland and prevented her from enjoying the benefits of the English constitution . What little economic freedom Ireland gained during the eighteenth century , to develop her industry ...
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... 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 establish ...
... 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 establish ...
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... whole career . " In 1940 , John H. Randall repeated this point , and during the 1940's two other writers on Burke , Annie M. Osborn and John A. Lester , added their voices to this chorus of scholars who supposed he was a utilitarian , a ...
... whole career . " In 1940 , John H. Randall repeated this point , and during the 1940's two other writers on Burke , Annie M. Osborn and John A. Lester , added their voices to this chorus of scholars who supposed he was a utilitarian , a ...
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... whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be carried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we ...
... whole fabric . You would readily have allowed my principle , but you dreaded the consequences ; you thought , that having once entered upon these reasonings , we might be carried insensibly and irresistibly farther than at first we ...
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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