Pre-Revolutionary WritingsThis is the first collection of the writings of Edmund Burke which precede Reflections on the Revolution in France, and the first to do justice to the connections and breadth of Burke's thought. A thinker whose range transcends formal boundaries, Burke has been highly prized by both conservatives and liberals, and this new edition charts the development of Burke's thought and its importance as a response to the events of his day. Burke's mind spanned theology, aesthetics, moral philosophy and history, as well as the political affairs of Ireland, England, America, India and France, and he united these concerns in his view of inequality. In the writings in this edition Burke indicated how societies embodying revealed religion and social hierarchy could sustain civilisation and political liberty. These thoughts reached their apogee in Reflections on the Revolution in France. This edition provides the student with all the necessary information for an understanding of the complexities of Burke's thought. Each text is prefaced by a summary and notes to the texts elucidate the literary and historical references. An introduction and biographical and bibliographical essays help place these works in the context of Burke's thought as a whole. |
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... America Introduction 193 Analysis 205 Text 206 ' Almas Ali Khan ' Introduction Analysis 270 275 277 Text ' Speech on the Army Estimates ' Introduction Analysis Text Index of persons Index of subjects and places 298 305 306 321 326 ...
... America Introduction 193 Analysis 205 Text 206 ' Almas Ali Khan ' Introduction Analysis 270 275 277 Text ' Speech on the Army Estimates ' Introduction Analysis Text Index of persons Index of subjects and places 298 305 306 321 326 ...
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... America , India and France . This profusion of themes in two modes of writing , one might feel , envelops ordered description in a cloud of complexity . The editor trusts that the apparatus of this small edition will do something to ...
... America , India and France . This profusion of themes in two modes of writing , one might feel , envelops ordered description in a cloud of complexity . The editor trusts that the apparatus of this small edition will do something to ...
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... America Correspondence of Edmund Burke , ed . T. W. Copeland et al . ( Cambridge , 1958-78 ) Letters , Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs , ed . Matthew Arnold ( London , 1881 ) ; reissued with a new introduction by Conor Cruise O ...
... America Correspondence of Edmund Burke , ed . T. W. Copeland et al . ( Cambridge , 1958-78 ) Letters , Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs , ed . Matthew Arnold ( London , 1881 ) ; reissued with a new introduction by Conor Cruise O ...
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... America ; War with American colonies 1776 American Declaration of Independence 1777 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1780 Burke proposes Economical Reform ; declines poll at Bristol ; MP for Malton ; Gordon Riots 1782 Burke becomes ...
... America ; War with American colonies 1776 American Declaration of Independence 1777 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1780 Burke proposes Economical Reform ; declines poll at Bristol ; MP for Malton ; Gordon Riots 1782 Burke becomes ...
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... America that the Americans were at bottom English and as such devoted to liberty . They therefore had to be either reduced to obedience by force or , better , governed accord- ing to their own opinions as free men . India excited him ...
... America that the Americans were at bottom English and as such devoted to liberty . They therefore had to be either reduced to obedience by force or , better , governed accord- ing to their own opinions as free men . India excited him ...
Contents
Extempore Commonplace on The Sermon of Our Saviour on the Mount | 1 |
Text | 3 |
A Vindication of Natural Society | 4 |
Analysis | 7 |
Text | 8 |
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | 58 |
Analysis | 61 |
Text | 63 |
Analysis | 114 |
Text | 116 |
Conciliation with America | 193 |
Analysis | 205 |
Text | 206 |
Almas Ali Khan | 270 |
Analysis | 275 |
Text | 277 |
Religion | 78 |
Analysis | 81 |
Text | 82 |
Tracts on the Popery Laws | 88 |
Analysis | 93 |
Text | 95 |
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents | 103 |
Speech on the Army Estimates | 298 |
Analysis | 305 |
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321 | |
326 | |
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References to this book
Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas: An Historical Introduction Tudor Jones No preview available - 2002 |