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Yet he was intensely aware of the penal laws against Roman Catholics, and the civil disabilities against Protestant dissenters, and throughout his twenty-nine years in Parliament did his best to establish equal constitutional rights for ...
Yet he was intensely aware of the penal laws against Roman Catholics, and the civil disabilities against Protestant dissenters, and throughout his twenty-nine years in Parliament did his best to establish equal constitutional rights for ...
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... the two most important positive ingredients in his mature political philosophy. But perhaps of equal significance, Burke's youthful satire on Bolingbroke also reveals the negative side of his later political philosophy — his extreme ...
... the two most important positive ingredients in his mature political philosophy. But perhaps of equal significance, Burke's youthful satire on Bolingbroke also reveals the negative side of his later political philosophy — his extreme ...
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... of political institutions, weak and wicked as they are, I can argue with equal, perhaps superior, force, concerning the necessity of artificial religion; and every step you advance in your argument, you add a strength to mine.
... of political institutions, weak and wicked as they are, I can argue with equal, perhaps superior, force, concerning the necessity of artificial religion; and every step you advance in your argument, you add a strength to mine.
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... might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they, who doubt of everything else, will never permit to be questioned.
... might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they, who doubt of everything else, will never permit to be questioned.
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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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