Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... 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 , as men by repletion cast off their stomachs all they have eaten . Then I turned back to ...
... 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 , as men by repletion cast off their stomachs all they have eaten . Then I turned back to ...
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... mind in the same proportion . " Burke al- ways 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 ...
... mind in the same proportion . " Burke al- ways 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 ...
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... mind . " Johnson noted that " his stream of mind is per- petual . He talks not from a desire to excel , but because his mind is full . " After hearing Burke speak in the House of Commons , Boswell wrote : " It was astonishing how all ...
... mind . " Johnson noted that " his stream of mind is per- petual . He talks not from a desire to excel , but because his mind is full . " After hearing Burke speak in the House of Commons , Boswell wrote : " It was astonishing how all ...
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... mind without anyone noticing the excision . " Gibbon him- self , who disliked Burke's Christian orthodoxy , called ... minds of the present age , " or some such expression . ... But the most remarkable insight into the unique manner of ...
... mind without anyone noticing the excision . " Gibbon him- self , who disliked Burke's Christian orthodoxy , called ... minds of the present age , " or some such expression . ... But the most remarkable insight into the unique manner of ...
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... mind grasped it , penetrated to its core , and enveloped it in a three - dimensional hold that included his senses , his intuitional reason , and his emotions and imagination . His desire to grasp the whole reality of life lay behind ...
... mind grasped it , penetrated to its core , and enveloped it in a three - dimensional hold that included his senses , his intuitional reason , and his emotions and imagination . His desire to grasp the whole reality of life lay behind ...
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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