Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... established . But after the clergy , nobility , and third estate were merged into a unicameral National Assembly , with votes told by the head , serious differences arose among the members — differences in philosophical principles , in ...
... established . But after the clergy , nobility , and third estate were merged into a unicameral National Assembly , with votes told by the head , serious differences arose among the members — differences in philosophical principles , in ...
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... establish " principles subversive of the whole political , civil , and re- ligious system of Europe . " In his Letter to a Noble Lord ( 1795 ) , he re- ferred to the Revolution as " a subject of awful meditation . Before this of France ...
... establish " principles subversive of the whole political , civil , and re- ligious system of Europe . " In his Letter to a Noble Lord ( 1795 ) , he re- ferred to the Revolution as " a subject of awful meditation . Before this of France ...
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... established institutions and legal pro- cesses of society , regardless of its political structure . In every just social order , sound ethical norms are embodied in its established in- 22 stitutions , so that in ordinary cases , within ...
... established institutions and legal pro- cesses of society , regardless of its political structure . In every just social order , sound ethical norms are embodied in its established in- 22 stitutions , so that in ordinary cases , within ...
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... established beyond any reasonable doubt that far from being an empiricist , util- itarian , and pragmatist , and therefore an enemy of Natural Law , he was in principle and practice one of the most eloquent and pro- found defenders of ...
... established beyond any reasonable doubt that far from being an empiricist , util- itarian , and pragmatist , and therefore an enemy of Natural Law , he was in principle and practice one of the most eloquent and pro- found defenders of ...
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... established order of European society . and Burke's A Vindication of Natural Society was primarily a satire of Lord Bolingbroke's deism and rationalism . Bolingbroke had died in 1751 , his posthumous collected philosophical writings ...
... established order of European society . and Burke's A Vindication of Natural Society was primarily a satire of Lord Bolingbroke's deism and rationalism . Bolingbroke had died in 1751 , his posthumous collected philosophical writings ...
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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