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Printed uniformly with the present Edition, to which it forms an essential accompaniment.
THE WORKS
OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EDMUND BURKE.
VOL. VI.
MISCELLANEOUS SPEECHES, LETTERS, AND FRAGMENTS ABRIDGMENT OF ENGLISH HISTORY, ETC.
With a General Ender.
LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
1890.
LIBRARY
OF THE
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY.
A.467
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
CONTENTS.
1
LETTER to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, held-13th
April, 1780, at Aylesbury; on the Duration of Parliaments, and
a more equal Representation of the People
Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland
Letter to William Smith, Esq., dated January 1795, then Men.ber
of the Irish Parliament, now one of the Barons of the Court of
Exchequer in Ireland, on the same subject
Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, dated May, 1795, on the
same subject
Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., on the same subject
Letter on the Affairs of Ireland, written in the year 1797
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On the Reform of the Representation in the House of Commons
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AN ABRIDGMENT OF ENGLISH HISTORY, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the End of the Reign of King John. In Three Books: viz.-
BOOK I.
CHAP. I. Causes of the Connexion between the Romans and Bri-
tons.-Cæsar's two Invasions of Britain
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CHAP. II. Some Account of the ancient Inhabitants of Britain
III. The Reduction of Britain by the Romans
IV. The Fall of the Roman Power in Britain
BOOK II.
CHAP. I. The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons, and their
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III. Series of Anglo-Saxon Kings, from Ethelbert to Alfred,
v. Succession of Kings from Alfred to Harold.
VI. Harold-Invasion of the Normans-Account of that
People, and of the State of England at the time of
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BOOK III.
CHAP. 1. View of the State of Europe at the time of the Norman
Ix. Fragment-An Essay towards an History of the Laws
REPORT, made on the 30th April, 1794, from the Committee of the
House of Commons appointed to inspect the Lords' Journals, in
relation to their Proceeding on the Trial of Warren Hastings,
Esquire
General In lex to the Six Volumes
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