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As Morley said, Burke "changed his front, but he never changed his ground." Woodrow Wilson also defended Burke's consistency: "He was applying the same principles to the case of France and to the case of India that he had applied to the ...
As Morley said, Burke "changed his front, but he never changed his ground." Woodrow Wilson also defended Burke's consistency: "He was applying the same principles to the case of France and to the case of India that he had applied to the ...
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Burke opposed Dr. Price, Priestley, and Paine, and the revolutionaries in France, on exactly the same grounds on which he had opposed George III and Warren Hastings. Another common charge against Burke's position toward the French ...
Burke opposed Dr. Price, Priestley, and Paine, and the revolutionaries in France, on exactly the same grounds on which he had opposed George III and Warren Hastings. Another common charge against Burke's position toward the French ...
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They were quite unaware that the Natural Law was the ultimate moral foundation of his political philosophy. Morley admired the blooming flowers of Burke's politics, without noting the philosophical ground in which they were rooted.
They were quite unaware that the Natural Law was the ultimate moral foundation of his political philosophy. Morley admired the blooming flowers of Burke's politics, without noting the philosophical ground in which they were rooted.
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He changed his partisan political front, but he never changed his moral ground. The utilitarians and positivists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have persistently misunderstood or ignored Burke's appeals to the Natural Law.
He changed his partisan political front, but he never changed his moral ground. The utilitarians and positivists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have persistently misunderstood or ignored Burke's appeals to the Natural Law.
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A counter-revolution on traditional grounds has characterized scholarship on Burke since 1948, and has completely reversed the utilitarian-positivist interpretation of his political philosophy. All the outstanding scholars on Burke now ...
A counter-revolution on traditional grounds has characterized scholarship on Burke since 1948, and has completely reversed the utilitarian-positivist interpretation of his political philosophy. All the outstanding scholars on Burke now ...
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Contents
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| 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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