The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeCosimo, Inc., 2008. jan. 1. - 588 oldal 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 III, readers will find: . "Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts" . "Speech on the Debate of the Army Estimates in the House of Commons" . "Reflections on the Revolution in France" |
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... opinion prevailed , strongly confirmed by sev- eral passages in his own letters , as well as by a com- bination of circumstances forming a body of evidence which cannot be resisted , that very great sums have been by him distributed ...
... opinion prevailed , strongly confirmed by sev- eral passages in his own letters , as well as by a com- bination of circumstances forming a body of evidence which cannot be resisted , that very great sums have been by him distributed ...
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... facts relative to the debts were so notorious , the opinion of their being a principal source of the disorders of the British government in India was so undisputed and universal , that there was no party , ADVERTISEMENT . 5.
... facts relative to the debts were so notorious , the opinion of their being a principal source of the disorders of the British government in India was so undisputed and universal , that there was no party , ADVERTISEMENT . 5.
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... opinion , in flat contradic- tion to their recorded sentiments , their strong re- monstrance , and their declared sense of their duty , as well under their general trust and their oath as Directors , as under the express injunctions of ...
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... opinion the courage of the minister was the most wonderful part of the transaction , especially as he must have read , or rather the right honorable gentleman says he has read for him , whole volumes upon the subject . The volumes , by ...
... opinion the courage of the minister was the most wonderful part of the transaction , especially as he must have read , or rather the right honorable gentleman says he has read for him , whole volumes upon the subject . The volumes , by ...
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274. oldal - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
62. oldal - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
63. oldal - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
245. oldal - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
275. oldal - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
246. oldal - ... them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume. Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
308. oldal - Par am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy.