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Page vii
... Present Discontents ( 1770 ) .117 .121 Speech on Conciliation ( 1775 ) .176 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ( 1777 ) .223 III . IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION Tract on the Popery Laws ( 1765 ) .253 A Letter to a Peer of Ireland ...
... Present Discontents ( 1770 ) .117 .121 Speech on Conciliation ( 1775 ) .176 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ( 1777 ) .223 III . IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION Tract on the Popery Laws ( 1765 ) .253 A Letter to a Peer of Ireland ...
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... Present State of Nation . Thoughts on Present Discontents . North Ministry . 1771-74 Burke as agent for New York . 1772 1773 Opposed Petition of Clergy against Subscription . Speech on Protestant Dissenters . Visit to France . 1774 ...
... Present State of Nation . Thoughts on Present Discontents . North Ministry . 1771-74 Burke as agent for New York . 1772 1773 Opposed Petition of Clergy against Subscription . Speech on Protestant Dissenters . Visit to France . 1774 ...
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... present . Yet Burke preferred to keep his con- nection with the Annual Register anonymous , even after he gave up being the active editor in 1765 or 1766. However , for the next thirty years the Annual Register continued to be edited ...
... present . Yet Burke preferred to keep his con- nection with the Annual Register anonymous , even after he gave up being the active editor in 1765 or 1766. However , for the next thirty years the Annual Register continued to be edited ...
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... present age , " or some such expression . ... But the most remarkable insight into the unique manner of Burke's thought and expression came from Goldsmith , who once remarked in conversation that Burke " wound into his subject. 14 ...
... present age , " or some such expression . ... But the most remarkable insight into the unique manner of Burke's thought and expression came from Goldsmith , who once remarked in conversation that Burke " wound into his subject. 14 ...
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... present needs , and of the " wisdom of our ancestors , " as embodied in living social traditions and civil manners . In these early works he had voiced his faith in the gradual development of a constitutional system of government in ...
... present needs , and of the " wisdom of our ancestors , " as embodied in living social traditions and civil manners . In these early works he had voiced his faith in the gradual development of a constitutional system of government in ...
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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