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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... never more firmly settled , never exerted more widely its magical influence , and never expressed itself in sager utterances , than in these last years . Let the student examine the ' Letters on a Regicide Peace , ' and he will find ...
... never more firmly settled , never exerted more widely its magical influence , and never expressed itself in sager utterances , than in these last years . Let the student examine the ' Letters on a Regicide Peace , ' and he will find ...
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... never suffered to take part in the actual conduct of the state . Boling- broke , in his celebrated ' Patriot King , ' had cleverly shown how this state of things might be reversed , and during the last twenty years of the reign of ...
... never suffered to take part in the actual conduct of the state . Boling- broke , in his celebrated ' Patriot King , ' had cleverly shown how this state of things might be reversed , and during the last twenty years of the reign of ...
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... never to be beat . It trampled North under foot ; it beat the stiff neck of the younger Pitt ; even his illness never conquered that indomitable spirit . ' It is impossible not to feel a certain satisfaction on seeing ' the en- gineer ...
... never to be beat . It trampled North under foot ; it beat the stiff neck of the younger Pitt ; even his illness never conquered that indomitable spirit . ' It is impossible not to feel a certain satisfaction on seeing ' the en- gineer ...
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... never thought he was deserting any principle of his own , in joining the Rockinghams . He had an old and most respectable connexion to support , and a new and disreputable one to oppose ; and his party were at the time devoted to ...
... never thought he was deserting any principle of his own , in joining the Rockinghams . He had an old and most respectable connexion to support , and a new and disreputable one to oppose ; and his party were at the time devoted to ...
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... Never did the spirit of conservatism appear more plainly than in the two famous Speeches contained in the present volume , which he composed , delivered , and wrote out for the press on two important occasions in the debates before the ...
... Never did the spirit of conservatism appear more plainly than in the two famous Speeches contained in the present volume , which he composed , delivered , and wrote out for the press on two important occasions in the debates before the ...
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