Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... considering Burke's living political philosophy it will be worthwhile to exam- ine briefly the one outstanding personal triumph Burke achieved during his lifetime — his writings on the French Revolution , which won most of the British ...
... considering Burke's living political philosophy it will be worthwhile to exam- ine briefly the one outstanding personal triumph Burke achieved during his lifetime — his writings on the French Revolution , which won most of the British ...
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... considering the condition of France in 1789. As he noted in the Reflections , when the Revolution began practically all men were of one mind that the existing order needed badly to be reformed , so that long - standing economic and ...
... considering the condition of France in 1789. As he noted in the Reflections , when the Revolution began practically all men were of one mind that the existing order needed badly to be reformed , so that long - standing economic and ...
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... consider only Burke's immediate practical intention — to warn his countrymen and Europeans who cherished a Christian and Nat- ural Law conception of civil society against the rationalism and the a priori , speculative , anti ...
... consider only Burke's immediate practical intention — to warn his countrymen and Europeans who cherished a Christian and Nat- ural Law conception of civil society against the rationalism and the a priori , speculative , anti ...
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... Considering the complexity of his thought , the large num- ber of political and historical issues in which he was involved , and the changing patterns of philosophical belief among his scholars , it is not surprising that at various ...
... Considering the complexity of his thought , the large num- ber of political and historical issues in which he was involved , and the changing patterns of philosophical belief among his scholars , it is not surprising that at various ...
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... " and " prudence , " and his appeals to consider the prac- tical consequences of following a given political policy to its logical but fatal conclusion . All these elements in his political. 30 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... " and " prudence , " and his appeals to consider the prac- tical consequences of following a given political policy to its logical but fatal conclusion . All these elements in his political. 30 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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