Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... Burke as the quintessential conservative . Kirk may well be the best known " professional " conservative in America , by which adjective is meant that he launched his extraordinary career by an act of conscious apostleship to a social ...
... Burke as the quintessential conservative . Kirk may well be the best known " professional " conservative in America , by which adjective is meant that he launched his extraordinary career by an act of conscious apostleship to a social ...
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... Burke is our contemporary , he is an issue , in a way that Locke is not , and Leibniz is not , and even Mill is not . Burke has not receded into what Lovejoy called the pathos of time , by which he meant that benign and even tender ...
... Burke is our contemporary , he is an issue , in a way that Locke is not , and Leibniz is not , and even Mill is not . Burke has not receded into what Lovejoy called the pathos of time , by which he meant that benign and even tender ...
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... Burke was the only man in England who really understood him . Burke's reformist politics even involved him in some friendly friction with his associates in Dr. Johnson's circle , who were very largely Tories . ( Dr. Johnson , you will ...
... Burke was the only man in England who really understood him . Burke's reformist politics even involved him in some friendly friction with his associates in Dr. Johnson's circle , who were very largely Tories . ( Dr. Johnson , you will ...
Contents
Preface by William F Buckley Jr | 1 |
You Ever See a Dream Walking? by William | 19 |
The Quest for a Tradition | 37 |
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