The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeCosimo, Inc., 1 ene 2008 - 572 páginas This 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume I, readers will find: . "A Vindication of Natural Society" . "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" . "A Short Account of a Late Short Administration" . "The Present State of the Nation" . "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent" |
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... persons who call themselves the friends or admirers of the late Edmund Burke will have the goodness to transmit , without delay , any notices of that or of any other kind which may happen to be in their posses- sion or within their ...
... persons who call themselves the friends or admirers of the late Edmund Burke will have the goodness to transmit , without delay , any notices of that or of any other kind which may happen to be in their posses- sion or within their ...
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... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
... persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ample subject for declamation ; but they do not consider the character of the piece . The writers ...
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... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportion- ably in an union of many families into one body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
... persons to form one family ; he therefore judged that he would find his account proportion- ably in an union of many families into one body poli- tic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this ...
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... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
... persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very ...
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... persons become victims of his sus- picions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as great a crime as high treason . In the court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of ...
... persons become victims of his sus- picions . The slightest displeasure is death ; and a disagreeable aspect is often as great a crime as high treason . In the court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestioned merit , and of ...
Índice
A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF | 67 |
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION | 263 |
OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION INTItuled The | 269 |
THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS | 433 |
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