Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... House of Commons , his mastery of English common law was so complete , that his col- leagues considered him the fittest man among them to handle the enormous legal problems entailed in the impeachment of Warren Hastings . In summary ...
... House of Commons , his mastery of English common law was so complete , that his col- leagues considered him the fittest man among them to handle the enormous legal problems entailed in the impeachment of Warren Hastings . In summary ...
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... common purse in their economic necessities . Burke's rela- tionship to Will Burke was particularly close . They even took ... House of Commons in 1766 . Just before Burke published his Sublime and Beautiful , there ap- peared on April 12 ...
... common purse in their economic necessities . Burke's rela- tionship to Will Burke was particularly close . They even took ... House of Commons in 1766 . Just before Burke published his Sublime and Beautiful , there ap- peared on April 12 ...
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... House of Commons . . . the first man ev- erywhere . " Johnson also noted that he was " the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the fame which he has in the world , " because " the pulse beat [ is ] higher in Burke's ...
... House of Commons . . . the first man ev- erywhere . " Johnson also noted that he was " the only man whose common conversation corresponds with the fame which he has in the world , " because " the pulse beat [ is ] higher in Burke's ...
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... House of Commons from 1766 to 1794. Very shortly after his quarrel with Hamilton , Burke was rec- ommended by William Fitzherbert to the Marquis of Rockingham . On July 10 , 1765 , shortly after the fall of the Grenville ministry ...
... House of Commons from 1766 to 1794. Very shortly after his quarrel with Hamilton , Burke was rec- ommended by William Fitzherbert to the Marquis of Rockingham . On July 10 , 1765 , shortly after the fall of the Grenville ministry ...
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 |
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 |
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