Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... better . But as an undergraduate he was blissfully unaware of the war he was to wage with the Carte- sian rationalism of the " Enlightenment , " which dominated eigh- teenth - century politics . After he entered Parliament in 1766 Burke ...
... better . But as an undergraduate he was blissfully unaware of the war he was to wage with the Carte- sian rationalism of the " Enlightenment , " which dominated eigh- teenth - century politics . After he entered Parliament in 1766 Burke ...
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... better one of these days . " In short , at age thirty - two , after a decade in England , Burke was recognized and ac- cepted as an eager , bright , successful , and rising writer . IV . Burke's Prose Style The literary qualities which ...
... better one of these days . " In short , at age thirty - two , after a decade in England , Burke was recognized and ac- cepted as an eager , bright , successful , and rising writer . IV . Burke's Prose Style The literary qualities which ...
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... better idea of it from viewing it in as great a variety of lights as the subject will bear . " The same principle in han- dling a subject , by combining all the various ways it can be consid- ered , is also found in Burke's three - page ...
... better idea of it from viewing it in as great a variety of lights as the subject will bear . " The same principle in han- dling a subject , by combining all the various ways it can be consid- ered , is also found in Burke's three - page ...
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... better than they could themselves , and that he rejected totally any seri- ous consideration of a state of nature . Burke's analogical method supplies the key to an understanding of his satire . In attacking Bolingbroke's deism , he ...
... better than they could themselves , and that he rejected totally any seri- ous consideration of a state of nature . Burke's analogical method supplies the key to an understanding of his satire . In attacking Bolingbroke's deism , he ...
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... better than a beast ? Do they think to enforce the prac- tice of virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our ...
... better than a beast ? Do they think to enforce the prac- tice of virtue , by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here , or by happiness or misery hereafter ? Do they imagine they shall increase our ...
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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