Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... civil , criminal , constitutional , and Natural Law . But his knowledge of the law is most clearly evident in his in- numerable quotations and references to the ancient records , char- ters , legal treatises , statutes , procedures ...
... civil , criminal , constitutional , and Natural Law . But his knowledge of the law is most clearly evident in his in- numerable quotations and references to the ancient records , char- ters , legal treatises , statutes , procedures ...
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... civil manners . In these early works he had voiced his faith in the gradual development of a constitutional system of government in England , based on the principle of the division of power within and between Church and State , and ...
... civil manners . In these early works he had voiced his faith in the gradual development of a constitutional system of government in England , based on the principle of the division of power within and between Church and State , and ...
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... civil , and re- ligious system of Europe . " In his Letter to a Noble Lord ( 1795 ) , he re- ferred to the Revolution as " a subject of awful meditation . Before this of France , " he continued , " the annals of all time have not fur ...
... civil , and re- ligious system of Europe . " In his Letter to a Noble Lord ( 1795 ) , he re- ferred to the Revolution as " a subject of awful meditation . Before this of France , " he continued , " the annals of all time have not fur ...
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... civil society against the rationalism and the a priori , speculative , anti - historical ideology and doctrinaire spirit underlying the Revolution , the Reflections was the most successful book of the eighteenth - century ...
... civil society against the rationalism and the a priori , speculative , anti - historical ideology and doctrinaire spirit underlying the Revolution , the Reflections was the most successful book of the eighteenth - century ...
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... civil order and legal justice , to his veneration of " the wisdom of our ancestors , " as embodied in Church and State , to his defense of the constitutional safeguards to life , liberty , and property , to his praise of " prejudice ...
... civil order and legal justice , to his veneration of " the wisdom of our ancestors , " as embodied in Church and State , to his defense of the constitutional safeguards to life , liberty , and property , to his praise of " prejudice ...
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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