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THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND RELIGIOUS TOLERATION Speech on the Acts of Uniformity (1772) 365 Speech on the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (1773) 372 Speech on the Petition of the Unitarian Society (1792) 377 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE ...
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND RELIGIOUS TOLERATION Speech on the Acts of Uniformity (1772) 365 Speech on the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (1773) 372 Speech on the Petition of the Unitarian Society (1792) 377 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE ...
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1746 Founded Trinity College Historical Society. 1747 Began to write The Sublime and Beautiful. 1748 Entered at the Middle Temple, London. 1750 Arrived in London to study law. 1756 A Vindication of Natural Society .
1746 Founded Trinity College Historical Society. 1747 Began to write The Sublime and Beautiful. 1748 Entered at the Middle Temple, London. 1750 Arrived in London to study law. 1756 A Vindication of Natural Society .
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The minute book of this debating society, mainly written by him, reveals his arguments in the undergraduate debates. Clearly, while at Trinity Burke acquired a substantial body of liberal knowledge and some literary skill, ...
The minute book of this debating society, mainly written by him, reveals his arguments in the undergraduate debates. Clearly, while at Trinity Burke acquired a substantial body of liberal knowledge and some literary skill, ...
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In May 1756 Burke became an author by publishing A Vindication of Natural Society. This work was an ironical satire on the religious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's "natural" religion, applied to society by an assumed antithesis ...
In May 1756 Burke became an author by publishing A Vindication of Natural Society. This work was an ironical satire on the religious rationalism of Lord Bolingbroke's "natural" religion, applied to society by an assumed antithesis ...
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Throughout Burke's Abridgment of English History (1757) and the early volumes of the Annual Register (1759-65), his veneration for the historical diversity and continuity of civil society, so like that of Montesquieu, is everywhere ...
Throughout Burke's Abridgment of English History (1757) and the early volumes of the Annual Register (1759-65), his veneration for the historical diversity and continuity of civil society, so like that of Montesquieu, is everywhere ...
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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 |
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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