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Page viii
... ... 609 ..623 .658 VIII . DEFENSE OF HIS LIFE A Letter to a Noble Lord ( 1795 ) . A Selected Bibliography .665 ..699 PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION The Transaction anthology , Edmund. SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
... ... 609 ..623 .658 VIII . DEFENSE OF HIS LIFE A Letter to a Noble Lord ( 1795 ) . A Selected Bibliography .665 ..699 PREFACE TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION The Transaction anthology , Edmund. SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.
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... Lord Rockingham . Elected to House of Commons for Wendover . Burke entered House of Commons . Chatham Ministry . Grafton Ministry . Burke purchased Gregories , estate at Beaconsfield . Observations on Present State of Nation . Thoughts ...
... Lord Rockingham . Elected to House of Commons for Wendover . Burke entered House of Commons . Chatham Ministry . Grafton Ministry . Burke purchased Gregories , estate at Beaconsfield . Observations on Present State of Nation . Thoughts ...
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... Lords . 1796 1797 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity . Letter to a Noble Lord . Letters on a Regicide Peace . Burke's death , July 9 , at Beaconsfield . INTRODUCTION I. BURKE'S EARLY LIFE Edmund Burke was born on. xiv CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
... Lords . 1796 1797 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity . Letter to a Noble Lord . Letters on a Regicide Peace . Burke's death , July 9 , at Beaconsfield . INTRODUCTION I. BURKE'S EARLY LIFE Edmund Burke was born on. xiv CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
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... Lords and Commons , the Rolls and Laws of Parlia- ment , State Trials , Statutes of Jeofails , Woodfall's Parliamentary Debates , the legal decisions of Chief - Barons and Justices Hard- wicke , Willes , Parker , Raymond , Vaughan ...
... Lords and Commons , the Rolls and Laws of Parlia- ment , State Trials , Statutes of Jeofails , Woodfall's Parliamentary Debates , the legal decisions of Chief - Barons and Justices Hard- wicke , Willes , Parker , Raymond , Vaughan ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke's " natural " religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political institutions of man . Burke's imitation of Boling- broke's famous prose style was such a ...
... Lord Bolingbroke's " natural " religion , applied to society by an assumed antithesis between the " natural " and " ar- tificial " political institutions of man . Burke's imitation of Boling- broke's famous prose style was such a ...
Contents
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A Vindication of Natural Society 1756 | 47 |
An Abridgment of English History 1757 | 76 |
Selections from Book Reviews in the Annual Register | 104 |
A Short Account of a Late Short Administration 1766 | 117 |
Speech on Conciliation 1775 | 176 |
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1777 | 223 |
IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION | 251 |
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland 1782 | 274 |
A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe 1792 | 288 |
A Letter to Richard Burke 1793 | 320 |
A Letter to William Smith 1795 | 330 |
Speech on Economical Reform 1780 | 341 |
Speech on the Middlesex Election 1771 | 363 |
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