Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... Liberty of Subjects in England ( 1765 ) . He probably severed his official connec- tion as editor of the Annual Register in 1765—66 . Yet he reviewed Blackstone's Commentaries ( 1767—68 ) , Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishments ...
... Liberty of Subjects in England ( 1765 ) . He probably severed his official connec- tion as editor of the Annual Register in 1765—66 . Yet he reviewed Blackstone's Commentaries ( 1767—68 ) , Beccaria's Essay on Crimes and Punishments ...
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... liberty under the common law . Among the men who followed Coke was Selden , whom Burke called " a great ornament of the common law . " He also admired the moderate lawyers who produced the Revolution of 1688. Burke's interpretation of ...
... liberty under the common law . Among the men who followed Coke was Selden , whom Burke called " a great ornament of the common law . " He also admired the moderate lawyers who produced the Revolution of 1688. Burke's interpretation of ...
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... liberty by defending the old regime in France , and in so doing was inconsistent with the political prin- ciples he had always professed . This charge of inconsistency shows an ignorance of Burke or the French Revolution or both . When ...
... liberty by defending the old regime in France , and in so doing was inconsistent with the political prin- ciples he had always professed . This charge of inconsistency shows an ignorance of Burke or the French Revolution or both . When ...
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... liberty connected with civil order and legal justice , to his veneration of " the wisdom of our ancestors , " as embodied in Church and State , to his defense of the constitutional safeguards to life , liberty , and property , to his ...
... liberty connected with civil order and legal justice , to his veneration of " the wisdom of our ancestors , " as embodied in Church and State , to his defense of the constitutional safeguards to life , liberty , and property , to his ...
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... liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ; and we derive advantages from it which are very visible . The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation ...
... liberty and rational happiness we enjoy . We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly ; and we derive advantages from it which are very visible . The fabric of superstition has in this our age and nation ...
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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