Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... mind and feeling , enabled his readers to leap from sight to insight , from the physical sense to the metaphysical essence of his subject or theme , so that at once they saw , understood , and felt profoundly the point of his argument ...
... mind and feeling , enabled his readers to leap from sight to insight , from the physical sense to the metaphysical essence of his subject or theme , so that at once they saw , understood , and felt profoundly the point of his argument ...
Page 24
... mind that the existing order needed badly to be reformed , so that long - standing economic and social inequities could be eliminated , and a more free , just , and well - ordered society established . But after the clergy , nobility ...
... mind that the existing order needed badly to be reformed , so that long - standing economic and social inequities could be eliminated , and a more free , just , and well - ordered society established . But after the clergy , nobility ...
Page 25
... mind of man . " Also in 1796 , in his second Letter on a Regicide Peace , Burke said that " a silent revolution in the moral world preceded the political , and prepared it . " Burke summarized his impressions of the strange and powerful ...
... mind of man . " Also in 1796 , in his second Letter on a Regicide Peace , Burke said that " a silent revolution in the moral world preceded the political , and prepared it . " Burke summarized his impressions of the strange and powerful ...
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... mind works soberly upon it . It is only the main thesis that he does not seriously mean . " The main thesis of the satire was the Rousseauist paradox that a simple society , close to na- ture , " was morally superior to the complex and ...
... mind works soberly upon it . It is only the main thesis that he does not seriously mean . " The main thesis of the satire was the Rousseauist paradox that a simple society , close to na- ture , " was morally superior to the complex and ...
Page 52
... mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and government ; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such ...
... mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced ; those who looked for new helps to society and government ; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such ...
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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