Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... Conduct of the Minority . Remarks on the Policy of the Allies . 1794 Deaths of Burke's brother and son . Burke retires from Parliament . 1795 Hastings acquitted by House of Lords . 1796 1797 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity . Letter to ...
... Conduct of the Minority . Remarks on the Policy of the Allies . 1794 Deaths of Burke's brother and son . Burke retires from Parliament . 1795 Hastings acquitted by House of Lords . 1796 1797 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity . Letter to ...
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... conduct of his public life . It also probably contributed strongly to his lifelong habit of ret- icence about his private life . From 1743 to 1748 Burke attended Trinity College , Dublin , where he was a fellow student with Oliver ...
... conduct of his public life . It also probably contributed strongly to his lifelong habit of ret- icence about his private life . From 1743 to 1748 Burke attended Trinity College , Dublin , where he was a fellow student with Oliver ...
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... conduct . It is very hard to anticipate the occasion , and to live by a rule more general . " To Burke , " no moral questions are ever abstract questions . " Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue ; as ...
... conduct . It is very hard to anticipate the occasion , and to live by a rule more general . " To Burke , " no moral questions are ever abstract questions . " Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue ; as ...
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... conduct ourselves in examining a received opinion ; but with all that freedom and candor which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or however it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own interests . There is a most absurd and ...
... conduct ourselves in examining a received opinion ; but with all that freedom and candor which we owe to truth wherever we find it , or however it may contradict our own notions , or oppose our own interests . There is a most absurd and ...
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... conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ; and truly , if a man judged of the individu- als of our race by their conduct when united and. 58 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ; and truly , if a man judged of the individu- als of our race by their conduct when united and. 58 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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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