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IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION Tract on the Popery Laws (1765) 253 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 ...
IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION Tract on the Popery Laws (1765) 253 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 ...
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His mother was of the eminent Irish Nagle family, and a Roman Catholic. ... Yet he was intensely aware of the penal laws against Roman Catholics, and the civil disabilities against Protestant dissenters, and throughout his twenty-nine ...
His mother was of the eminent Irish Nagle family, and a Roman Catholic. ... Yet he was intensely aware of the penal laws against Roman Catholics, and the civil disabilities against Protestant dissenters, and throughout his twenty-nine ...
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His attempts to bring relief to the Catholics of Ireland from the tyrannical penal laws were largely unsuccessful, but his principles were gradually fulfilled after his death. His bill in 1780 to reform the abuses of royal patronage was ...
His attempts to bring relief to the Catholics of Ireland from the tyrannical penal laws were largely unsuccessful, but his principles were gradually fulfilled after his death. His bill in 1780 to reform the abuses of royal patronage was ...
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... fond of adverting to first principles of public morality; but affirmation of the natural law is implicit in all his works, and when he criticized radically — when he attacked at the roots such heinous systems as the anti-Catholic ...
... fond of adverting to first principles of public morality; but affirmation of the natural law is implicit in all his works, and when he criticized radically — when he attacked at the roots such heinous systems as the anti-Catholic ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 19 | |
| 47 | |
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 |
Tract on the Popery Laws 1765 | 253 |
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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| Title | Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Peter James Stanlis |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 141282222X, 9781412822220 |
| Length | 585 pages |
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