Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... Lord Verney , that Burke was first able to enter the House of Commons in 1766 . Just before Burke published his Sublime and Beautiful , there ap- peared on April 12 , 1757 , an anonymous two - volume work called An Account of the ...
... Lord Verney , that Burke was first able to enter the House of Commons in 1766 . Just before Burke published his Sublime and Beautiful , there ap- peared on April 12 , 1757 , an anonymous two - volume work called An Account of the ...
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... Lord Lyttleton . A good summary description of how Burke struck some of his contemporaries is provided by Horace Walpole . On July 22 , 1761 , Walpole wrote to George Montagu of having dined with David Garrick . There he met " a young ...
... Lord Lyttleton . A good summary description of how Burke struck some of his contemporaries is provided by Horace Walpole . On July 22 , 1761 , Walpole wrote to George Montagu of having dined with David Garrick . There he met " a young ...
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... Lord Charlemont , he was introduced to William Gerard Hamilton , a wealthy young man exactly his own age , with influen- tial connections , already in Parliament , and with ambitions to go much further in politics . Hamilton soon noted ...
... Lord Charlemont , he was introduced to William Gerard Hamilton , a wealthy young man exactly his own age , with influen- tial connections , already in Parliament , and with ambitions to go much further in politics . Hamilton soon noted ...
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... Lords , and at best Burke's efforts served as a warning to future British gover- nors . His opposition to the radicals and liberal Whigs who wished to reform the representation of the House of Commons earned him the intense enmity of ...
... Lords , and at best Burke's efforts served as a warning to future British gover- nors . His opposition to the radicals and liberal Whigs who wished to reform the representation of the House of Commons earned him the intense enmity of ...
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... Lord ( 1795 ) , he re- ferred to the Revolution as " a subject of awful meditation . Before this of France , " he continued , " the annals of all time have not fur- nished an instance of a complete revolution . That Revolution seems to ...
... Lord ( 1795 ) , he re- ferred to the Revolution as " a subject of awful meditation . Before this of France , " he continued , " the annals of all time have not fur- nished an instance of a complete revolution . That Revolution seems to ...
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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