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... authority , " and Hooker was for Burke the great fountainhead of post - Reformation English canon law . Next to Cicero , no legal theorist had quite the same authority for him as Sir Edward Coke , whom he quotes nine times in his works ...
... authority , " and Hooker was for Burke the great fountainhead of post - Reformation English canon law . Next to Cicero , no legal theorist had quite the same authority for him as Sir Edward Coke , whom he quotes nine times in his works ...
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... authority on Burke during the late nineteenth century, wrote two books on him, in which he emphasized "Burke's utilitarian liberalism," and praised him for having overthrown "the baneful superstition that politics ... is a province of ...
... authority on Burke during the late nineteenth century, wrote two books on him, in which he emphasized "Burke's utilitarian liberalism," and praised him for having overthrown "the baneful superstition that politics ... is a province of ...
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... authority in the history of political theory , in A History of Political Theory refined upon these long - prevailing ... authorities proclaiming Burke an apostle of expediency and a deadly enemy of Natural Law , it is not surprising that ...
... authority in the history of political theory , in A History of Political Theory refined upon these long - prevailing ... authorities proclaiming Burke an apostle of expediency and a deadly enemy of Natural Law , it is not surprising that ...
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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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