Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... ideas to take in all that Nature comprehends , according to her man- ner of combining . " In a sketch called " The ... idea of it from viewing it in as great a variety of lights as the subject will bear . " The same principle in han ...
... ideas to take in all that Nature comprehends , according to her man- ner of combining . " In a sketch called " The ... idea of it from viewing it in as great a variety of lights as the subject will bear . " The same principle in han ...
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... ideas he was to advance in the rough-and-tumble partisan politics of his era. His reading infused a humanistic temper into his political principles, and lifted his approach to politics above the ordinary mechanical formulas and ...
... ideas he was to advance in the rough-and-tumble partisan politics of his era. His reading infused a humanistic temper into his political principles, and lifted his approach to politics above the ordinary mechanical formulas and ...
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... ideas which fill his speeches and writings on government from 1765 to his death in 1797 , reveal that he remained consistent to this position throughout his life . Burke's active political career extended from 1765 to 1794 , and ...
... ideas which fill his speeches and writings on government from 1765 to his death in 1797 , reveal that he remained consistent to this position throughout his life . Burke's active political career extended from 1765 to 1794 , and ...
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... ideas and principles of his political philos- ophy , which has continued to influence men throughout history long after the partisan causes which triumphed over him were buried in the graveyard of dead politics . But before considering ...
... ideas and principles of his political philos- ophy , which has continued to influence men throughout history long after the partisan causes which triumphed over him were buried in the graveyard of dead politics . But before considering ...
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... ideas of Right, Sovereignty, Property, and so forth," because such ideas "have no invariable conformity to facts, and . . . are only treated with reverence because they are absurdly supposed to be ultimate, eternal entities." Thus ...
... ideas of Right, Sovereignty, Property, and so forth," because such ideas "have no invariable conformity to facts, and . . . are only treated with reverence because they are absurdly supposed to be ultimate, eternal entities." Thus ...
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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