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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... true 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 ...
... true 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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... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
... true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons which induced me to go so far into that inquiry ; and they are the reasons which direct me in all my inquiries . I had ...
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... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but lit- tle . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
... true point of quiet . It discovers every day some craving want in a body , which really wants but lit- tle . It every day invents some new artificial rule to guide that nature which , if left to itself , were the best and surest guide ...
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... true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
... true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that we shall perpetually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly ...
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... true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and ...
... true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them , and exercised by base and ...
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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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