Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and SpeechesTransaction Publishers - 585 pages |
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... question one of the two or three most important historical events of modern times , and signalized a great and enduring change in the world's affairs . Burke's sympa- thetic position toward the American Revolution has in general met ...
... question one of the two or three most important historical events of modern times , and signalized a great and enduring change in the world's affairs . Burke's sympa- thetic position toward the American Revolution has in general met ...
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... questions are ever abstract questions . " Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue ; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction and intellectual ...
... questions are ever abstract questions . " Prudence was for him not primarily an intellectual but a moral virtue ; as such it was a corrective and the best positive alternative to the errors of metaphysical abstraction and intellectual ...
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... questions to be answered concerning Burke's political philosophy are (1) What, to Burke, were the basic principles of sound morality? and (2) How could moral principles be man's guide in practical politics? The second question has ...
... questions to be answered concerning Burke's political philosophy are (1) What, to Burke, were the basic principles of sound morality? and (2) How could moral principles be man's guide in practical politics? The second question has ...
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... questions can be stated separately . But in the close fusion of theory and practice in politics , they are ideally one and the same question , although man as a finite and fal- lible creature can approximate this ideal fusion only ...
... questions can be stated separately . But in the close fusion of theory and practice in politics , they are ideally one and the same question , although man as a finite and fal- lible creature can approximate this ideal fusion only ...
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... question of his po- litical consistency can never be resolved on the political level alone , within history , without recourse to the moral principles which un- derlie his politics . He changed his partisan political front , but he ...
... question of his po- litical consistency can never be resolved on the political level alone , within history , without recourse to the moral principles which un- derlie his politics . He changed his partisan political front , but he ...
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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