Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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Page 24
... true in those cases where his knowledge was insufficient . But the same objection applies to those who favored the Revolu- tion without sufficient historical knowledge . But the issue of Burke and the French Revolution is not to be ...
... true in those cases where his knowledge was insufficient . But the same objection applies to those who favored the Revolu- tion without sufficient historical knowledge . But the issue of Burke and the French Revolution is not to be ...
Page 29
... true politics are those of morality enlarged , " have been generally subordinated to non - ethi- cal considerations . Ever since Henry Buckle published The History of Civilization in England ( 1857—61 ) , it has been universally assumed ...
... true politics are those of morality enlarged , " have been generally subordinated to non - ethi- cal considerations . Ever since Henry Buckle published The History of Civilization in England ( 1857—61 ) , it has been universally assumed ...
Page 34
... true propriety , grace , and ef- fect to a man's 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 ...
... true propriety , grace , and ef- fect to a man's 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 ...
Page 36
... true moral prudence they are perfectly in accord with Nat- ural and constitutional law , from which men's true natural and civil rights are derived . He believed that when claims to individual " rights " conflicted with moral expediency ...
... true moral prudence they are perfectly in accord with Nat- ural and constitutional law , from which men's true natural and civil rights are derived . He believed that when claims to individual " rights " conflicted with moral expediency ...
Page 41
... true that he never de- nied the reality of natural rights . . . . However , like Hume , he believed that they were purely conventional . They arise not from anything belonging to nature or to the human species at large , but solely from ...
... true that he never de- nied the reality of natural rights . . . . However , like Hume , he believed that they were purely conventional . They arise not from anything belonging to nature or to the human species at large , but solely from ...
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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