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But before doing this it is necessary to understand in what sense "history is a preceptor of prudence," and why it was that he considered prudence to be "in all things a virtue, in politics the first of virtues." For the past century, ...
But before doing this it is necessary to understand in what sense "history is a preceptor of prudence," and why it was that he considered prudence to be "in all things a virtue, in politics the first of virtues." For the past century, ...
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Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction and intellectual speculation: Nothing universal can be ...
Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction and intellectual speculation: Nothing universal can be ...
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Nor is prudence merely the social virtue of tact. To him, prudence is part of God's "divine tactic" fulfilled in man's moral temperance and political tact. Understood in this profoundly Aristotelian sense, Burke's principle of prudence ...
Nor is prudence merely the social virtue of tact. To him, prudence is part of God's "divine tactic" fulfilled in man's moral temperance and political tact. Understood in this profoundly Aristotelian sense, Burke's principle of prudence ...
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In his attack on Warren Hastings' "system of corruption," he noted the governor's "attempts to justify it on the score of utility," and added, "God forbid that prudence, which is the supreme guide, and indeed stands first of all virtues ...
In his attack on Warren Hastings' "system of corruption," he noted the governor's "attempts to justify it on the score of utility," and added, "God forbid that prudence, which is the supreme guide, and indeed stands first of all virtues ...
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... moderation: "Our physical well- being, our moral worth, our social happiness, our political tranquillity, all depend on that control of our appetites and passions, which the ancients designated by the cardinal virtue of Temperance.
... moderation: "Our physical well- being, our moral worth, our social happiness, our political tranquillity, all depend on that control of our appetites and passions, which the ancients designated by the cardinal virtue of Temperance.
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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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