The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeThis 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 VI, readers will find: . "Fourth Letter on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" . "Letter to the Honorable Charles James Fox, On the American War" . "Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, with Address to the King, and the British Colonists in North America." . "Letters and Reflections on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780" . "Letter to the Right Honorable Henry Dundas: With the Sketch of a Negro Code" . "Fragments of a Tract Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland" . "Letter to William Smith, Esq., On the Subject of Catholic Emancipation" . "Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, On the Catholic Question" . "Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., On Protestant Ascendency in Ireland" . "Letter on the Affairs of Ireland" . and more |
Contents
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LETTER TO THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA November 1 1791 | 113 |
LETTER TO SIR CHARLES BINGHAM BART ON THE IRISH | 121 |
LETTER TO THE HON CHARLES JAMES FOX ON THE AMER | 135 |
LETTER TO THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM WITH | 149 |
LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON EDMUND S PERY IN | 197 |
Two LETTERS TO THOMAS BURGH Esq AND JOHN MER | 207 |
WITH | 255 |
LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE | 291 |
FRAGMENTS OF A TRACT RELATIVE TO THE LAWS AGAINST | 299 |
LETTER TO WILLIAM SMITH ESQ ON THE SUBJECT | 361 |
SECOND LETTER TO SIR HERCULES LANGRISHE ON | 375 |
LETTER TO RICHARD BURKE ESQ ON PROTESTANT | 385 |
LETTER ON THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND 1797 | 413 |
LETTERS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE EXECUTIONS OF | 239 |
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Page 151 - What the Americans have done is, in their circumstances, truly astonishing ; it is, indeed, infinitely more than I expected from them. But having done so much, for some short time I began to entertain an opinion that they might do more.
Page 221 - Government influence ; that the business of a minister, or of those who acted as such, had been still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas, to confirm inveterate prejudices, to inflame vulgar passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities...
Page 7 - ... intemperate minds. I may be, and I fear I am, with you in that description : but pray, my Lord, recollect, that very few of the causes, which make men intemperate, can operate upon me. Sanguine hopes, vehement desires, inordinate ambition, implacable animosity, party attachments, or party interests ; — all these with me have no existence. For myself, or for a family, (alas ! I have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world.
Page 368 - If anything is, one more than another, out of the power of man, it is to create a prejudice. Somebody has said that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.