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First, I was greatly taken with natural philosophy; which, while I should have given my mind to logic, employed me incessantly. This I call my furor mathematicus. But this worked off as soon as I began to read it in the college, ...
First, I was greatly taken with natural philosophy; which, while I should have given my mind to logic, employed me incessantly. This I call my furor mathematicus. But this worked off as soon as I began to read it in the college, ...
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Burke always believed that nothing sharpened the mind as did the study of law; therefore, he cautioned his colleagues in March 1775 not to underestimate the resources of the American colonists, who had bought as many copies of ...
Burke always believed that nothing sharpened the mind as did the study of law; therefore, he cautioned his colleagues in March 1775 not to underestimate the resources of the American colonists, who had bought as many copies of ...
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Johnson admired Burke's sheer weight of knowledge and "the ebullition of his mind." Johnson noted that "his stream of mind is perpetual. He talks not from a desire to excel, but because his mind is full." After hearing Burke speak in ...
Johnson admired Burke's sheer weight of knowledge and "the ebullition of his mind." Johnson noted that "his stream of mind is perpetual. He talks not from a desire to excel, but because his mind is full." After hearing Burke speak in ...
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When he left Beaconsfield Mackintosh was so impressed with Burke's powers of conversation that he remarked "Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without anyone noticing the excision." Gibbon himself, who disliked ...
When he left Beaconsfield Mackintosh was so impressed with Burke's powers of conversation that he remarked "Gibbon might have been cut out of a corner of Burke's mind without anyone noticing the excision." Gibbon himself, who disliked ...
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This simile reflects perfectly Burke's most characteristic method of treating a subject — his mind grasped it, penetrated to its core, and enveloped it in a three-dimensional hold that included his senses, his intuitional reason, ...
This simile reflects perfectly Burke's most characteristic method of treating a subject — his mind grasped it, penetrated to its core, and enveloped it in a three-dimensional hold that included his senses, his intuitional reason, ...
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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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