Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... ground . " Woodrow Wilson also defended Burke's consistency : " He was ap- plying the same principles to the case of France and to the case of India that he had applied to the case of the colonies . " The key to his consistency is his ...
... ground . " Woodrow Wilson also defended Burke's consistency : " He was ap- plying the same principles to the case of France and to the case of India that he had applied to the case of the colonies . " The key to his consistency is his ...
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... grounds on which he had opposed George III and Warren Hastings . Another common charge against Burke's position toward the French Revolution is that although undoubtedly his political prin- ciples were the same as ever , he did not know ...
... grounds on which he had opposed George III and Warren Hastings . Another common charge against Burke's position toward the French Revolution is that although undoubtedly his political prin- ciples were the same as ever , he did not know ...
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... ground in which they were rooted . He enjoyed the taste of the stream without going back to its source . Consequently , Morley made a tabula rasa of the moral principles in Burke's political philosophy , expunging the Natural Law in ...
... ground in which they were rooted . He enjoyed the taste of the stream without going back to its source . Consequently , Morley made a tabula rasa of the moral principles in Burke's political philosophy , expunging the Natural Law in ...
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... ground . The utilitarians and positivists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have persistently misunderstood or ignored Burke's ap- peals to the Natural Law . Because they held Natural Law in con- tempt , as unscientific , their ...
... ground . The utilitarians and positivists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have persistently misunderstood or ignored Burke's ap- peals to the Natural Law . Because they held Natural Law in con- tempt , as unscientific , their ...
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... grounds has characterized scholarship on Burke since 1948 , and has completely reversed the utilitarian - positivist interpretation of his political phi- losophy . All the outstanding scholars on Burke now agree that in the final ...
... grounds has characterized scholarship on Burke since 1948 , and has completely reversed the utilitarian - positivist interpretation of his political phi- losophy . All the outstanding scholars on Burke now agree that in the final ...
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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