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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... political sagacity manifests itself in distinguishing that complaint which only characterizes the general infirmity of human nature , from those which are symptoms of the particular distemperature of our own air and season . -from ...
... political sagacity manifests itself in distinguishing that complaint which only characterizes the general infirmity of human nature , from those which are symptoms of the particular distemperature of our own air and season . -from ...
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... political pieces which were written by him between the time of his first becoming connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his ...
... political pieces which were written by him between the time of his first becoming connected with the Marquis of Rock- ingham and his being chosen member for Bristol . In the third are comprehended all his speeches and pamphlets from his ...
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... political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a ...
... political societies , their origin , their constitution , and their effects , I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness . He has mixed in his cup a ...
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... political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ...
... political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or gov- ernments ; into some form of which , more extended or restrained , all mankind have gradually fallen . And since it has so happened ...
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... political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine ...
... political doc- tor , " to consider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine ...
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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