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... reason ; and , like all other natural appetites , have been very violent for a season , and very soon cooled , and quite absorbed in the succeeding . I have often thought it a humorous consideration to ob- serve and sum up all the ...
... reason ; and , like all other natural appetites , have been very violent for a season , and very soon cooled , and quite absorbed in the succeeding . I have often thought it a humorous consideration to ob- serve and sum up all the ...
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... reason , and his emotions and imagination . His desire to grasp the whole reality of life lay behind his complex style of expression . His conviction that " reason is but a part of human na- ture " made him distrust a merely rational or ...
... reason , and his emotions and imagination . His desire to grasp the whole reality of life lay behind his complex style of expression . His conviction that " reason is but a part of human na- ture " made him distrust a merely rational or ...
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... reason , to the senses and emo- tions , but the mere presence of these ingredients in his speeches and writings did not , in themselves , make his style great . His imagina- tive fusion of all these ingredients , his skill in converting ...
... reason , to the senses and emo- tions , but the mere presence of these ingredients in his speeches and writings did not , in themselves , make his style great . His imagina- tive fusion of all these ingredients , his skill in converting ...
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... reason downwards from high sounding ideas of Right , Sovereignty , Property , and so forth , " because such ideas " have no invariable conformity to facts , and . . . are only treated with rever- ence because they are absurdly supposed ...
... reason downwards from high sounding ideas of Right , Sovereignty , Property , and so forth , " because such ideas " have no invariable conformity to facts , and . . . are only treated with rever- ence because they are absurdly supposed ...
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... reason and " rights , " and to his conception of man as a civil or political animal , who finds his self ... reasons , on a consideration of those parts of his political philosophy. 32 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... reason and " rights , " and to his conception of man as a civil or political animal , who finds his self ... reasons , on a consideration of those parts of his political philosophy. 32 SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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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