The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeThis 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume III, readers will find: . "Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts" . "Speech on the Debate of the Army Estimates in the House of Commons" . "Reflections on the Revolution in France" |
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... conduct is now in question formerly stood forth in this House , the prosecutor of the worthy baronet † who spoke af ... conducting it with a degree of skill and vigor fully equal to all that have been exerted against him . But the change ...
... conduct is now in question formerly stood forth in this House , the prosecutor of the worthy baronet † who spoke af ... conducting it with a degree of skill and vigor fully equal to all that have been exerted against him . But the change ...
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... conduct of that inquisition , that should commit this trust to a particular description of men , and in the very same breath should enable another body , at their own pleasure , to supersede all the provisions the legislature had made ...
... conduct of that inquisition , that should commit this trust to a particular description of men , and in the very same breath should enable another body , at their own pleasure , to supersede all the provisions the legislature had made ...
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... conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a brier at our nose of greater magnitude than an oak at five ...
... conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a brier at our nose of greater magnitude than an oak at five ...
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... conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are bountiful to crimes will be rigid to merit and penurious to service . Their penury is ...
... conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are bountiful to crimes will be rigid to merit and penurious to service . Their penury is ...
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... conduct with regard to it . I will show you that this debt was never contracted with the knowledge of the Company ; that it had not their approbation ; that they received the first intel- ligence of it with the utmost possible surprise ...
... conduct with regard to it . I will show you that this debt was never contracted with the knowledge of the Company ; that it had not their approbation ; that they received the first intel- ligence of it with the utmost possible surprise ...
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Page 274 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 62 - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 63 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 245 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 275 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Page 246 - ... them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume. Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
Page 308 - Par am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy.