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By this procedure a balance has been maintained in covering all of Burke's great concerns, and a sense of proportion has been observed in the length of the selections on each subject. From the works that have had to be abridged, ...
By this procedure a balance has been maintained in covering all of Burke's great concerns, and a sense of proportion has been observed in the length of the selections on each subject. From the works that have had to be abridged, ...
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Also, beginning in 1741, his education at Ballitore in County Kildare, at the school of a humane and liberal Quaker, Abraham Shackleton, contributed much toward Burke's sense of the pieties of life, and helped to shape his lifelong ...
Also, beginning in 1741, his education at Ballitore in County Kildare, at the school of a humane and liberal Quaker, Abraham Shackleton, contributed much toward Burke's sense of the pieties of life, and helped to shape his lifelong ...
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... English common law, criminal law, and the precedents of prescription in positive law, all infuse and inform his political philosophy, his sense of Europe as a great commonwealth of nations with a common moral and legal inheritance, ...
... English common law, criminal law, and the precedents of prescription in positive law, all infuse and inform his political philosophy, his sense of Europe as a great commonwealth of nations with a common moral and legal inheritance, ...
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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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Burke did indeed appeal to man's reason, to the senses and emotions, but the mere presence of these ingredients in his speeches ... from the physical sense to the metaphysical essence of his subject or theme, so that at once they saw, ...
Burke did indeed appeal to man's reason, to the senses and emotions, but the mere presence of these ingredients in his speeches ... from the physical sense to the metaphysical essence of his subject or theme, so that at once they saw, ...
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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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