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... that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it. The first British edition sold twelve thousand copies in the first month; in less than 26 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... that the people of Britain were almost immediately divided into two distinct groups for or against it. The first British edition sold twelve thousand copies in the first month; in less than 26 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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twelve thousand copies in the first month; in less than a year there were eleven editions, and by 1796 over thirty thousand official copies had been sold. For that era, when a book was circulated among many readers and was frequently ...
twelve thousand copies in the first month; in less than a year there were eleven editions, and by 1796 over thirty thousand official copies had been sold. For that era, when a book was circulated among many readers and was frequently ...
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Understood in this profoundly Aristotelian sense, Burke's principle of prudence is nothing less than the universal, eternal, and unchangeable Natural Law applied in practice through politics to each particular man, at every moment and ...
Understood in this profoundly Aristotelian sense, Burke's principle of prudence is nothing less than the universal, eternal, and unchangeable Natural Law applied in practice through politics to each particular man, at every moment and ...
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His essential ethical and political beliefs, more or less explicit or assumed, are to be found scattered throughout his voluminous writings and recorded speeches.
His essential ethical and political beliefs, more or less explicit or assumed, are to be found scattered throughout his voluminous writings and recorded speeches.
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As Jacques Maritain has said: "The idea of natural law . . . does not go back to the philosophy of the eighteenth century, which more or less deformed it." To the utilitarians, all appeals to "nature" as an ethical norm were anathema.
As Jacques Maritain has said: "The idea of natural law . . . does not go back to the philosophy of the eighteenth century, which more or less deformed it." To the utilitarians, all appeals to "nature" as an ethical norm were anathema.
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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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