Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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Page 33
... sense " history is a pre- ceptor of prudence , " and why it was that he considered prudence to be " in all things a virtue , in politics the first of virtues . " For the past century , the most common single error of writers on Burke ...
... sense " history is a pre- ceptor of prudence , " and why it was that he considered prudence to be " in all things a virtue , in politics the first of virtues . " For the past century , the most common single error of writers on Burke ...
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... sense , Burke's prin- ciple of prudence is nothing less than the universal , eternal , and un- changeable Natural Law applied in practice through politics to each particular man , at every moment and in all circumstances , under the ...
... sense , Burke's prin- ciple of prudence is nothing less than the universal , eternal , and un- changeable Natural Law applied in practice through politics to each particular man , at every moment and in all circumstances , under the ...
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... sense Burke showed pre- cisely . the reaction that was to follow upon Hume's destruction of the eternal verities of reason and natural law . . . . It is true that he never de- nied the reality of natural rights . . . . However , like ...
... sense Burke showed pre- cisely . the reaction that was to follow upon Hume's destruction of the eternal verities of reason and natural law . . . . It is true that he never de- nied the reality of natural rights . . . . However , like ...
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... sense of self - restraint aris- ing from an awareness of the limitations and fallibility of his private rea- son , and from his subordinate place in the moral universe , then everything among all the excellent achievements of men ...
... sense of self - restraint aris- ing from an awareness of the limitations and fallibility of his private rea- son , and from his subordinate place in the moral universe , then everything among all the excellent achievements of men ...
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... sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the cre- ation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it ...
... sense of its own weakness , of its subordinate rank in the cre- ation , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it ...
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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