Burke, Select Works, Volumen 1The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 848 páginas An appealing compilation of Burke's principal works, including On the Causes of the Present Discontents (1770), which treats the expulsion of Wilkes from Parliament and the value of political parties, the speech On Conciliation with the American Colonies (1775), which supported the cause of the colonists, and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), a classic criticism of the revolution and its actors. Burke [1729-1797] is considered a founder of modern conservatism. This is true to some extent, but not quite. He believed in popular government and recognized the inevitability of change. Indeed, he believed that a state that could not adapt to change was a state doomed to failure. |
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... matter of observation and of practice , and its laws are those of individual human nature enlarged . Abstract principles , like most things , have their use and their abuse : and the confusion of these has been a main difficulty to the ...
... matter of observation and of practice , and its laws are those of individual human nature enlarged . Abstract principles , like most things , have their use and their abuse : and the confusion of these has been a main difficulty to the ...
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... , and perfected in it by con- tinuous practice . His scholarship is of the Roman rather than the Greek model . Cicero , Livy , and Tacitus were familiarised to him by sympathy with their subject - matter . He xxxii INTRODUCTION .
... , and perfected in it by con- tinuous practice . His scholarship is of the Roman rather than the Greek model . Cicero , Livy , and Tacitus were familiarised to him by sympathy with their subject - matter . He xxxii INTRODUCTION .
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... matter by placing it in new relations . Burke has great information , and great command of language ; though in my opinion it has not in every respect the highest elegance . ' Boswell : ' Do you think , Sir , that Burke has read Cicero ...
... matter by placing it in new relations . Burke has great information , and great command of language ; though in my opinion it has not in every respect the highest elegance . ' Boswell : ' Do you think , Sir , that Burke has read Cicero ...
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... matter - of - fact hyperboles ; its running away with a subject , and from it , at the same time — but there is no making it out , for there is no example of the same thing anywhere else . We have no common measure to refer to ; and his ...
... matter - of - fact hyperboles ; its running away with a subject , and from it , at the same time — but there is no making it out , for there is no example of the same thing anywhere else . We have no common measure to refer to ; and his ...
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... matter to pieces and begin afresh . Most writers have constantly beside them as a model some favourite classical author . Voltaire's model for prose was the ' Petit Careme ' of Massillon : for poetry , Racine . Burke , according to ...
... matter to pieces and begin afresh . Most writers have constantly beside them as a model some favourite classical author . Voltaire's model for prose was the ' Petit Careme ' of Massillon : for poetry , Racine . Burke , according to ...
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