The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeCosimo, Inc., 1 sty 2008 - 532 This 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume V, readers will find: . "Observations on the Conduct of the Minority" . "Preface to the Address of M. Brissot to His Constituents" . "Letter to William Elliot" . "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" . Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made Upon Mr. Burke and His Pension in the House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale" . "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" |
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LETTER TO WILLIAM ELLIOT ESQ OCCASIONED BY | 107 |
THOUGHTS AND DETAILS ON SCARCITY | 131 |
LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD ON THE ATTACKS MADE upon | 171 |
THREE LETTERS TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ON | 231 |
FRENCH REVOLUTION AS IT REGARDS OTHER | 342 |
ON THE RUPTURE OF THE NEGOTIATION | 384 |
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Strona 208 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognise the divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Strona 199 - Bedford, than to make a parallel between his services, and my attempts to be useful to my country. It would not be gross adulation, but uncivil irony, to say, that he has any public merit of his own to keep alive the idea of the services by which his vast landed pensions were obtained. My merits, whatever they are, are original and personal; his are derivative. It is his ancestor, the original pensioner, that has laid up this inexhaustible fund of merit, which makes his Grace so very delicate and...
Strona 199 - he lies floating many a rood,' he is still a. creature. His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray — everything of him and about him is from the throne.
Strona 209 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which ever must subsist in memory) that act of piety which he would have performed to me; I owe it to him to show that he was not descended, as the Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent.
Strona 193 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I...
Strona 210 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects the Lords and commons of this realm, the triple cord which no man can break...
Strona 201 - As there generally is some resemblance of character to create these relations, the favourite was in all likelihood much such another as his master. The first of those immoderate grants was not taken from the ancient demesne of the Crown, but from the recent confiscation of the ancient nobility of the land.
Strona 187 - The French revolutionists complained of every thing; they refused to reform any thing; and they left nothing, no nothing at all unchanged. The consequences are before us, - not in remote history; not in future prognostication; they are about us; they are upon us.
Strona 174 - Why will they not let me remain in obscurity and inaction ? Are they apprehensive, that, if an atom of me remains, the sect has something to fear? Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Zisca's, my skin might be made into a drum, to animate Europe to eternal battle against a tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and all the human race...
Strona 286 - All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.