Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... institutions of man . Burke's imitation of Boling- broke's famous prose style was such a masterful parody that many readers took his satire as a posthumous work of Bolingbroke . While still an undergraduate at Trinity , Burke had read ...
... institutions of man . Burke's imitation of Boling- broke's famous prose style was such a masterful parody that many readers took his satire as a posthumous work of Bolingbroke . While still an undergraduate at Trinity , Burke had read ...
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... the principles on which European institutions stood . In short , the Rev- olution was a movement founded on an entirely new and revolu- tionary theory of man and civil society . Burke was. 24 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... the principles on which European institutions stood . In short , the Rev- olution was a movement founded on an entirely new and revolu- tionary theory of man and civil society . Burke was. 24 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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... institutions . The principles and the fanatical spirit of the French Revolution were precisely the things Burke had always feared and opposed . The Revolution , he noted in the Reflections , involved primarily " a revolution in ...
... institutions . The principles and the fanatical spirit of the French Revolution were precisely the things Burke had always feared and opposed . The Revolution , he noted in the Reflections , involved primarily " a revolution in ...
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... institutions and conditions of mankind , must always vary in its means , according to the infinite variations of men's temporal circumstances . The common nature of man is infinitely modified by climate , geography , history , religion ...
... institutions and conditions of mankind , must always vary in its means , according to the infinite variations of men's temporal circumstances . The common nature of man is infinitely modified by climate , geography , history , religion ...
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... institutions and legal pro- cesses of society , regardless of its political structure . In every just social order , sound ethical norms are embodied in its established in- 22 stitutions , so that in ordinary cases , within ". Introduction ...
... institutions and legal pro- cesses of society , regardless of its political structure . In every just social order , sound ethical norms are embodied in its established in- 22 stitutions , so that in ordinary cases , within ". Introduction ...
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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