Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 67
Page 32
... Church and State , to his defense of the constitutional safeguards to life , liberty , and property , to his praise of " prejudice " and duty as against abstract reason and " rights , " and to his conception of man as a civil or ...
... Church and State , to his defense of the constitutional safeguards to life , liberty , and property , to his praise of " prejudice " and duty as against abstract reason and " rights , " and to his conception of man as a civil or ...
Page 50
... Church and State are " natural " to man , and that a state of " nat- ural society , " without institutions , was a fictitious and dangerous illusion when applied to man . But for the purposes of his satire he had to invert his real ...
... Church and State are " natural " to man , and that a state of " nat- ural society , " without institutions , was a fictitious and dangerous illusion when applied to man . But for the purposes of his satire he had to invert his real ...
Page 57
... church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ...
... church government , have been clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ...
Page 76
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Page 88
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
1 | |
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 |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abuse act of Parliament affairs amongst ancient Assembly authority body Britain British Catholics cause charter Christian Church Church of England ciples circumstances civil society clergy colonies commonwealth conduct consider consideration Constitution corruption court crown despotism doctrines Duke of Bedford duty East India Bill Edmund Burke effect election empire England English established evil faction favor France French Revolution gentlemen Hastings honor House of Commons human ideas institutions interest Ireland Jacobins justice king kingdom legislative liberty Lord mankind manner means members of Parliament ment mind ministers mode monarchy moral nation Natural Law never object opinion oppression Parliament party persons philosophy possession principles privileges Protestant Protestant ascendency prudence reason reform regard religion religious render revenue sort sovereign speculative Speech spirit sure things thought tion toleration true tyranny virtue Whigs whilst whole