Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... society . In addition to these vital appeals to the historical inheritance of soci- ety , in his Tract on the Popery Laws Burke had set forth the cardinal philosophical principles of his conception of man and civil society , centered in ...
... society . In addition to these vital appeals to the historical inheritance of soci- ety , in his Tract on the Popery Laws Burke had set forth the cardinal philosophical principles of his conception of man and civil society , centered in ...
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Selected Writings and Speeches Edmund Burke Peter James Stanlis. of man and society , and had declared war on both the scientific ra- tionalism and the Romantic sensibility of the Enlightenment phi- losophy of man and society . The ...
Selected Writings and Speeches Edmund Burke Peter James Stanlis. of man and society , and had declared war on both the scientific ra- tionalism and the Romantic sensibility of the Enlightenment phi- losophy of man and society . The ...
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... society , under constitutional and moral law , he set forth the vital 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 ...
... society , under constitutional and moral law , he set forth the vital 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 ...
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... society 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 ...
... society 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 ...
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... society . Burke was the first public man in Europe to perceive the ideological basis of the Revolution , centered in a materialistic conception of man and a mechanistic conception of society . In this , and in its spirit , it differed ...
... society . Burke was the first public man in Europe to perceive the ideological basis of the Revolution , centered in a materialistic conception of man and a mechanistic conception of society . In this , and in its spirit , it differed ...
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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