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In keeping only what I considered essential, I have not abstracted Burke's political ideas out of their concrete historical context. Nothing could be more foreign to Burke's character and temper than to treat his thought in an abstract ...
In keeping only what I considered essential, I have not abstracted Burke's political ideas out of their concrete historical context. Nothing could be more foreign to Burke's character and temper than to treat his thought in an abstract ...
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We read Burke not merely for his illumination of past political and historical events, but for the perennial vitality of his ideas and principles, and for his skill in combining principles with the concrete historical circumstances and ...
We read Burke not merely for his illumination of past political and historical events, but for the perennial vitality of his ideas and principles, and for his skill in combining principles with the concrete historical circumstances and ...
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From the first he learned the historical method of treating ideas; the second was his most frequently quoted modern authority on the law of nations. Burke also knew the work of the famous Jansenist jurist, Jean Domat, whose Civil Laws ...
From the first he learned the historical method of treating ideas; the second was his most frequently quoted modern authority on the law of nations. Burke also knew the work of the famous Jansenist jurist, Jean Domat, whose Civil Laws ...
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Shortly after he published A Vindication of Natural Society, during the winter of 1756— 57, he revised and completed this early work and published it on April 21, 1757, as A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the ...
Shortly after he published A Vindication of Natural Society, during the winter of 1756— 57, he revised and completed this early work and published it on April 21, 1757, as A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the ...
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A comparison between Burke's speeches in Parliament and articles in the Annual Register dealing with the same subjects reveals a great similarity in the ideas and temper, so that it is clear the Annual Register remained a valuable ...
A comparison between Burke's speeches in Parliament and articles in the Annual Register dealing with the same subjects reveals a great similarity in the ideas and temper, so that it is clear the Annual Register remained a valuable ...
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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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