Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... mankind . In reality , he was exchanging a precarious belles lettres literary career , and journalistic hack work , for Rockingham's secure political pa- tronage and a stormy political life . In his new public life , Burke's literary ...
... mankind . In reality , he was exchanging a precarious belles lettres literary career , and journalistic hack work , for Rockingham's secure political pa- tronage and a stormy political life . In his new public life , Burke's literary ...
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... mankind , must always vary in its means , according to the infinite variations of men's temporal circumstances . The common nature of man is infinitely modified by climate , geography , history , religion , nationality , and race ; by ...
... mankind , must always vary in its means , according to the infinite variations of men's temporal circumstances . The common nature of man is infinitely modified by climate , geography , history , religion , nationality , and race ; by ...
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... Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society In a Letter to Lord by a Late Noble Writer 1756 I t is remarkably prophetic that Burke's first important work in polit- ical thought , his A Vindication of Natural Society ( 1756 ) ...
... Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society In a Letter to Lord by a Late Noble Writer 1756 I t is remarkably prophetic that Burke's first important work in polit- ical thought , his A Vindication of Natural Society ( 1756 ) ...
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... mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disap- pointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in ...
... mankind delineated ; in short , all who consider such things as philosophy , and require some of them at least in every philosophical work , all these were certainly disap- pointed ; they found the landmarks of science precisely in ...
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... mankind has used from the be- ginning of the world to this day , in order to alleviate or cure them , has only served to introduce new mischiefs , or to aggravate and in- flame the old .... In the state of nature , without question , ...
... mankind has used from the be- ginning of the world to this day , in order to alleviate or cure them , has only served to introduce new mischiefs , or to aggravate and in- flame the old .... In the state of nature , without question , ...
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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