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Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
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By Edmund Burke
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INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
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APPENDIX.
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NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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RETROSPECT AND RESIGNATION.
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MODESTY OF MIND.
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NEWTON AND NATURE.
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THEORY AND PRACTICE.
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INDUCTION AND COMPARISON.
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DIVINE POWER ON THE HUMAN IDEA.
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UNION OF LOVE AND DREAD IN RELIGION.
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OFFICE OF SYMPATHY.
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WORDS.
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NATURE ANTICIPATES MAN.
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SELF-INSPECTION.
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POWER OF THE OBSCURE.
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FEMALE BEAUTY.
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NOVELTY AND CURIOSITY.
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PLEASURES OF ANALOGY.
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AMBITION.
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EXTENSIONS OF SYMPATHY.
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PHILOSOPHY OF TASTE.
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CLEARNESS AND STRENGTH IN STYLE.
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UNITY OF IMAGINATION.
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EFFECT OF WORDS.
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INVESTIGATION.
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THE SUBLIME.
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OBSCURITY.
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PRINCIPLES OF TASTE.
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THE BEAUTIFUL.
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THE REAL AND THE IDEAL.
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JUDGMENT IN ART.
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MORAL EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE.
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SECURITY OF TRUTH.
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IMITATION AN INSTINCTIVE LAW.
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STANDARD OF REASON AND TASTE.
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USE OF THEORY.
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POLITICAL OUTCASTS.
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INJUSTICE TO OUR OWN AGE.
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FALSE COALITIONS.
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POLITICAL EMPIRICISM.
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A VISIONARY.
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PARTY DIVISIONS.
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DECORUM IN PARTY.
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NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM.
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POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE.
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MORAL DEBASEMENT PROGRESSIVE.
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DESPOTISM.
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JUDGMENT AND POLICY.
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POPULAR DISCONTENT.
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THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS.
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GOVERNMENT FAVOURITISM.
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ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION.
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INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
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FALLACY OF EXTREMES.
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PRIVATE CHARACTER A BASIS FOR PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.
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PREVENTION.
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CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE.
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FALSE MAXIMS ASSUMED AS FIRST PRINCIPLES.
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LORD CHATHAM.
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GRENVILLE.
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CHARLES TOWNSHEND.
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PARTY AND PLACE.
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POLITICAL CONNECTIONS.
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NEUTRALITY.
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WEAKNESS IN GOVERNMENT.
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AMERICAN PROGRESS.
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COMBINATION, NOT FACTION.
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GREAT MEN.
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POWER OF CONSTITUENTS.
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INFLUENCE OF PLACE IN GOVERNMENT.
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TAXATION INVOLVES PRINCIPLE.
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GOOD MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
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FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND.
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PREPARATION FOR PARLIAMENT.
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BATHURST AND AMERICA'S FUTURE.
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CANDID POLICY.
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WISDOM OF CONCESSION.
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MAGNANIMITY.
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DUTY OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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PRUDENTIAL SILENCE.
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COLONIAL TIES.
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GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATION.
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PARLIAMENT.
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MORAL LEVELLERS.
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PUBLIC SALARY AND PATRIOTIC SERVICE.
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RATIONAL LIBERTY.
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IRELAND AND MAGNA CHARTA.
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COLONIES AND BRITISH CONSTITUTION.
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RECIPROCAL CONFIDENCE.
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PENSIONS AND THE CROWN.
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COLONIAL PROGRESS.
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FEUDAL PRINCIPLES AND MODERN TIMES.
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RESTRICTIVE VIRTUES.
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LIBELLERS OF HUMAN NATURE.
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REFUSAL A REVENUE.
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A PARTY MAN.
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PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC INCOME.
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AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM.
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RIGHT OF TAXATION.
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CONTRACTED VIEWS.
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ASSIMILATING POWER OF CONTACT.
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PRUDENCE OF TIMELY REFORM.
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DIFFICULTIES OF REFORMERS.
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PHILOSOPHY OF COMMERCE.
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THEORIZING POLITICIANS.
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ECONOMY AND PUBLIC SPIRIT.
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REFORM OUGHT TO BE PROGRESSIVE.
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CIVIL FREEDOM.
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TENDENCIES OF POWER.
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INDIVIDUAL GOOD AND PUBLIC BENEFIT.
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PUBLIC CORRUPTION.
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CRUELTY AND COWARDICE.
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BAD LAWS PRODUCE BASE SUBSERVIENCY.
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FALSE REGRET.
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BRITISH DOMINION IN EAST INDIA.
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POLITICAL CHARITY.
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EVILS OF DISTRACTION.
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CHARLES FOX.
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THE IMPRACTICABLE UNDESIRABLE.
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CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONS.
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EMOLUMENTS OF OFFICE.
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MORAL DISTINCTIONS.
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ELECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.
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POPULAR OPINION A FALLACIOUS STANDARD.
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ENGLISH REFORMATION.
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PROSCRIPTION.
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JUST FREEDOM.
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ENGLAND'S EMBASSY TO AMERICA.
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HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST.
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PARLIAMENTARY RETROSPECT.
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PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT.
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REFORMED CIVIL LIST.
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FRENCH AND ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
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ARMED DISCIPLINE.
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GILDED DESPOTISM.
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OUR FRENCH DANGERS.
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SIR GEORGE SAVILLE.
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CORRUPTION NOT SELF-REFORMED.
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THE BRIBED AND THE BRIBERS.
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HYDER ALI.
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REFORMATION AND ANARCHY CONTRASTED AND COMPARED.
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CONFIDENCE AND JEALOUSY.
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ECONOMY OF INJUSTICE.
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SUBSISTENCE AND REVENUE.
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AUTHORITY AND VENALITY.
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PREROGATIVE OF THE CROWN AND PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT.
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BURKE AND FOX.
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PEERS AND COMMONS.
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NATURAL SELF-DESTRUCTION.
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THE CARNATIC.
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ABSTRACT THEORY OF HUMAN LIBERTY.
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POLITICS AND THE PULPIT.
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IDEA OF FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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PATRIOTIC DISTINCTION.
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KINGLY POWER NOT BASED ON POPULAR CHOICE.
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PREACHING DEMOCRACY OF DISSENT.
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JARGON OF REPUBLICANISM.
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CONSERVATIVE PROGRESS OF INHERITED FREEDOM.
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CONSERVATION AND CORRECTION.
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HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF ENGLISH CROWN.
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LIMITS OF LEGISLATIVE CAPACITY.
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OUR CONSTITUTION, NOT FABRICATED, BUT INHERITED.
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LOW AIMS AND LOW INSTRUMENTS.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS CONTRASTED WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
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PROPERTY, MORE THAN ABILITY, REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT.
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VIRTUE AND WISDOM QUALIFY FOR GOVERNMENT.
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NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE.
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SPIRIT OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION.
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POWER SURVIVES OPINION.
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CHIVALRY A MORALIZING CHARM.
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SACREDNESS OF MORAL INSTINCTS.
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PARENTAL EXPERIENCE.
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REVOLUTIONARY SCENE.
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ECONOMY ON STATE PRINCIPLES.
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PHILOSOPHICAL VANITY; ITS MAXIMS, AND EFFECTS.
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UNITY BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE.
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TRIPLE BASIS OF FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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CORRESPONDENT SYSTEM OF MANNERS AND MORALS.
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FEROCITY OF JACOBINISM.
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VOICE OF OPPRESSION.
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BRITAIN VINDICATED IN HER WAR WITH FRANCE.
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POLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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EUROPE IN 1789.
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ATHEISM CANNOT REPENT.
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OUTWARD DIGNITY OF THE CHURCH DEFENDED.
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DANGER OF ABSTRACT VIEWS.
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APPEAL TO IMPARTIALITY.
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HISTORICAL ESTIMATE OF LOUIS XVI.
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NEGATIVE RELIGION A NULLITY.
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ANTECHAMBER OF REGICIDE.
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TREMENDOUSNESS OF WAR.
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ENGLISH OFFICERS.
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DIPLOMACY OF HUMILIATION.
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RELATION OF WEALTH TO NATIONAL DIGNITY.
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AMBASSADORS OF INFAMY.
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DIFFICULTY THE PATH TO GLORY.
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ROBESPIERRE AND HIS COUNTERPARTS.
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ACCUMULATION, A STATE PRINCIPLE.
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WARNING FOR A NATION.
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SANTERRE AND TALLIEN.
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SIR SYDNEY SMITH.
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A MORAL DISTINCTION.
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INFIDELS AND THEIR POLICY.
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WHAT A MINISTER SHOULD ATTEMPT.
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LAW OF VICINITY.
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EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.
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PERILS OF JACOBIN PEACE.
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PARLIAMENTARY AND REGAL PREROGATIVE.
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BURKE'S DESIGN IN HIS GREATEST WORK.
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LORD KEPPEL.
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"LABOURING POOR."
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STATE CONSECRATED BY THE CHURCH.
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FATE OF LOUIS XVIII.
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NOBILITY.
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LEGISLATION AND REPUBLICANS.
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PRINCIPLE OF STATE-CONSECRATION.
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BRITISH STABILITY.
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LITERARY ATHEISTS.
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CITY OF PARIS.
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PRINCIPLE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.
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PARSIMONY NOT ECONOMY.
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MAJESTY OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION.
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DUTY NOT BASED ON WILL.
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ECCLESIASTICAL CONFISCATION.
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MORAL OF HISTORY.
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USE OF DEFECTS IN HISTORY.
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SOCIAL CONTRACT.
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PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHTS.
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MADNESS OF INNOVATION.
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THE STATE, ITS OWN REVENUE.
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METAPHYSICAL DEPRAVITY.
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PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL CLAIMS.
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MONASTIC AND PHILOSOPHIC SUPERSTITION.
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DIFFICULTY AND WISDOM OF CORPORATE REFORM.
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DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM.
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FICTITIOUS LIBERTY.
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FRENCH IGNORANCE OF ENGLISH CHARACTER.
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THE "PEOPLE," AND "OMNIPOTENCE" OF PARLIAMENT.
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MAGNANIMITY OF ENGLISH PEOPLE.
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TRUE BASIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY.
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ROUSSEAU.
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MORAL HEROES.
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KINGDOM OF FRANCE.
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GRIEVANCE AND OPINION.
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PERPLEXITY AND POLICY.
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HISTORICAL INSTRUCTION.
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MONTESQUIEU.
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ARTICLES, AND SCRIPTURE.
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PROBLEM OF LEGISLATION.
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ORDER, LABOUR, AND PROPERTY.
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REGICIDAL LEGISLATURE.
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GOVERNMENT NOT TO BE RASHLY CENSURED.
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ETIQUETTE.
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ANCIENT ESTABLISHMENTS.
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SENTIMENT AND POLICY.
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PATRIOTISM.
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NECESSITY, A RELATIVE TERM.
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KING JOHN AND THE POPE.
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CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCE.
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"PRIESTS OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN."
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"HIS GRACE."
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SPECULATION AND HISTORY.
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LABOUR AND WAGES.
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A COMPLETE REVOLUTION.
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA.
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MONEY AND SCIENCE.
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POLITICAL AXIOMS.
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DISAPPOINTED AMBITION.
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DIFFICULTY AN INSTRUCTOR.
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SOVEREIGN JURISDICTIONS.
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PRUDERY OF FALSE REFORM.
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EXAGGERATION.
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TACTICS OF CABAL.
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GOVERNMENT, RELATIVE, NOT ABSOLUTE.
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GENERAL VIEWS.
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MAGNITUDE IN BUILDING.
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SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
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EAST-INDIA BILL AND COMPANY.
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PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS.
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RELIGION AND MAGISTRACY.
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PERSECUTION, FALSE IN THEORY.
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IRISH LEGISLATION.
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HENRY OF NAVARRE.
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TEST ACTS.
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WHAT FACTION OUGHT TO TEACH.
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GRIEVANCES BY LAW.
290
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS.
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TOLERATION BECOME INTOLERANT.
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WILKES AND RIGHT OF ELECTION.
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ROCKINGHAM AND CONWAY.
294
POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.
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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.
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KING ALFRED.
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DRUIDS.
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SAXON CONQUEST AND CONVERSION.
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MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY.
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MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS.
301
COMMON LAW AND MAGNA CHARTA.
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EUROPE AND THE NORMAN INVASION.
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ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF BRITAIN.
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PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS.
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TRUE NATURE OF A JACOBIN WAR.
306
NATIONAL DIGNITY.
307
PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT RELATIVE.
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DECLARATION OF 1793.
309
MORAL DIET.
310
KING WILLIAM'S POLICY.
311
DISTEMPER OF REMEDY.
312
WAR AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
313
FALSE POLICY IN OUR FRENCH WAR.
314
MORAL ESSENCE MAKES A NATION.
315
PUBLIC SPIRIT.
316
PROGRESSIVE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN STATES.
317
PETTY INTERESTS.
318
PIUS VII.
319
EXTINCTION OF LOCAL PATRIOTISM.
320
WALPOLE AND HIS POLICY.
321
POLITICAL PEACE.
322
PUBLIC LOANS.
323
HISTORICAL STRICTURES.
324
CONSTITUTION NOT THE PEOPLE'S SLAVE.
325
MODERN "LIGHTS."
326
REPUBLICS IN THE ABSTRACT.
327
AN ENGLISH MONARCH.
328
PHYSIOGNOMY.
329
THE EYE.
330
ABOLITION AND USE OF PARLIAMENTS.
331
CROMWELL AND HIS CONTRASTS.
332
DELICACY.
333
CONFISCATION AND CURRENCY.
334
"OMNIPOTENCE OF CHURCH PLUNDER."
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UGLINESS.
336
GRACE.
337
ELEGANCE AND SPECIOUSNESS.
338
THE BEAUTIFUL IN FEELING.
339
THE BEAUTIFUL IN SOUNDS.
340
BRITISH CHURCH.
341
INDEX.
Chapter 1 of 341
By Edmund Burke
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