Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
by Edmund Burke
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Contents
- Introductory Essay
- Appendix
- Nature and Functions of the House of Commons
- Retrospect and Resignation
- Modesty of Mind
- Newton and Nature
- Theory and Practice
- Induction and Comparison
- Divine Power on the Human Idea
- Union of Love and Dread in Religion
- Office of Sympathy
- Words
- Nature Anticipates Man
- Self-Inspection
- Power of the Obscure
- Female Beauty
- Novelty and Curiosity
- Pleasures of Analogy
- Ambition
- Extensions of Sympathy
- Philosophy of Taste
- Clearness and Strength in Style
- Unity of Imagination
- Effect of Words
- Investigation
- The Sublime
- Obscurity
- Principles of Taste
- The Beautiful
- The Real and the Ideal
- Judgment in Art
- Moral Effects of Language
- Security of Truth
- Imitation an Instinctive Law
- Standard of Reason and Taste
- Use of Theory
- Political Outcasts
- Injustice to Our Own Age
- False Coalitions
- Political Empiricism
- A Visionary
- Party Divisions
- Decorum in Party
- Not So Bad as We Seem
- Politics Without Principle
- Moral Debasement Progressive
- Despotism
- Judgment and Policy
- Popular Discontent
- The People and Their Rulers
- Government Favouritism
- Administration and Legislation
- Influence of the Crown
- Voice of the People
- Fallacy of Extremes
- Private Character a Basis for Public Confidence
- Prevention
- Confidence in the People
- False Maxims Assumed as First Principles
- Lord Chatham
- Grenville
- Charles Townshend
- Party and Place
- Political Connections
- Neutrality
- Weakness in Government
- American Progress
- Combination, Not Faction
- Great Men
- Power of Constituents
- Influence of Place in Government
- Taxation Involves Principle
- Good Member of Parliament
- Fisheries of New England
- Preparation for Parliament
- Bathurst and America's Future
- Candid Policy
- Wisdom of Concession
- Magnanimity
- Duty of Representatives
- Prudential Silence
- Colonial Ties
- Government and Legislation
- Parliament
- Moral Levellers
- Public Salary and Patriotic Service
- Rational Liberty
- Ireland and Magna Charta
- Colonies and British Constitution
- Reciprocal Confidence
- Pensions and the Crown
- Colonial Progress
- Feudal Principles and Modern Times
- Restrictive Virtues
- Libellers of Human Nature
- Refusal a Revenue
- A Party Man
- Patriotism and Public Income
- American Protestantism
- Right of Taxation
- Contracted Views
- Assimilating Power of Contact
- Prudence of Timely Reform
- Difficulties of Reformers
- Philosophy of Commerce
- Theorizing Politicians
- Economy and Public Spirit
- Reform Ought to Be Progressive
- Civil Freedom
- Tendencies of Power
- Individual Good and Public Benefit
- Public Corruption
- Cruelty and Cowardice
- Bad Laws Produce Base Subserviency
- False Regret
- British Dominion in East India
- Political Charity
- Evils of Distraction
- Charles Fox
- The Impracticable Undesirable
- Constitution of the Commons
- Emoluments of Office
- Moral Distinctions
- Electors and Representatives
- Popular Opinion a Fallacious Standard
- English Reformation
- Proscription
- Just Freedom
- England's Embassy to America
- Howard, the Philanthropist
- Parliamentary Retrospect
- People and Parliament
- Reformed Civil List
- French and English Revolution
- Armed Discipline
- Gilded Despotism
- Our French Dangers
- Sir George Saville
- Corruption Not Self-Reformed
- The Bribed and the Bribers
- Hyder Ali
- Reformation and Anarchy Contrasted and Compared
- Confidence and Jealousy
- Economy of Injustice
- Subsistence and Revenue
- Authority and Venality
- Prerogative of the Crown and Privilege of Parliament
- Burke and Fox
- Peers and Commons
- Natural Self-Destruction
- The Carnatic
- Abstract Theory of Human Liberty
- Politics and the Pulpit
- Idea of French Revolution
- Patriotic Distinction
- Kingly Power Not Based on Popular Choice
- Preaching Democracy of Dissent
- Jargon of Republicanism
- Conservative Progress of Inherited Freedom
- Conservation and Correction
- Hereditary Succession of English Crown
- Limits of Legislative Capacity
- Our Constitution, Not Fabricated, but Inherited
- Low Aims and Low Instruments
- House of Commons Contrasted with National Assembly
- Property, More Than Ability, Represented in Parliament
- Virtue and Wisdom Qualify for Government
- Natural and Civil Rights
- Marie Antoinette
- Spirit of a Gentleman and the Spirit of Religion
- Power Survives Opinion
- Chivalry a Moralizing Charm
- Sacredness of Moral Instincts
- Parental Experience
- Revolutionary Scene
- Economy on State Principles
- Philosophical Vanity; Its Maxims, and Effects
- Unity Between Church and State
- Triple Basis of French Revolution
- Correspondent System of Manners and Morals
- Ferocity of Jacobinism
- Voice of Oppression
- Britain Vindicated in Her War with France
- Polish and French Revolution
- Europe in 1789
- Atheism Cannot Repent
- Outward Dignity of the Church Defended
- Danger of Abstract Views
- Appeal to Impartiality
- Historical Estimate of Louis XVI
- Negative Religion a Nullity
- Antechamber of Regicide
- Tremendousness of War
- English Officers
- Diplomacy of Humiliation
- Relation of Wealth to National Dignity
- Ambassadors of Infamy
- Difficulty the Path to Glory
- Robespierre and His Counterparts
- Accumulation, a State Principle
- Warning for a Nation
- Santerre and Tallien
- Sir Sydney Smith
- A Moral Distinction
- Infidels and Their Policy
- What a Minister Should Attempt
- Law of Vicinity
- European Community
- Perils of Jacobin Peace
- Parliamentary and Regal Prerogative
- Burke's Design in His Greatest Work
- Lord Keppel
- "Labouring Poor."
- State Consecrated by the Church
- Fate of Louis XVIII
- Nobility
- Legislation and Republicans
- Principle of State-Consecration
- British Stability
- Literary Atheists
- City of Paris
- Principle of Church Property
- Parsimony Not Economy
- Majesty of the British Constitution
- Duty Not Based on Will
- Ecclesiastical Confiscation
- Moral of History
- Use of Defects in History
- Social Contract
- Prescriptive Rights
- Madness of Innovation
- The State, Its Own Revenue
- Metaphysical Depravity
- Personal and Ancestral Claims
- Monastic and Philosophic Superstition
- Difficulty and Wisdom of Corporate Reform
- Distinctive Character of English Protestantism
- Fictitious Liberty
- French Ignorance of English Character
- The "People," and "Omnipotence" of Parliament
- Magnanimity of English People
- True Basis of Civil Society
- Rousseau
- Moral Heroes
- Kingdom of France
- Grievance and Opinion
- Perplexity and Policy
- Historical Instruction
- Montesquieu
- Articles, and Scripture
- Problem of Legislation
- Order, Labour, and Property
- Regicidal Legislature
- Government Not to Be Rashly Censured
- Etiquette
- Ancient Establishments
- Sentiment and Policy
- Patriotism
- Necessity, a Relative Term
- King John and the Pope
- Consumption and Produce
- "Priests of the Rights of Man."
- "His Grace."
- Speculation and History
- Labour and Wages
- A Complete Revolution
- British Government in India
- Money and Science
- Political Axioms
- Disappointed Ambition
- Difficulty an Instructor
- Sovereign Jurisdictions
- Prudery of False Reform
- Exaggeration
- Tactics of Cabal
- Government, Relative, Not Absolute
- General Views
- Magnitude in Building
- Society and Solitude
- East-India Bill and Company
- Parliaments and Elections
- Religion and Magistracy
- Persecution, False in Theory
- Irish Legislation
- Henry of Navarre
- Test Acts
- What Faction Ought to Teach
- Grievances by Law
- Revolutionary Politics
- Toleration Become Intolerant
- Wilkes and Right of Election
- Rockingham and Conway
- Politics in the Pulpit
- William the Conqueror
- King Alfred
- Druids
- Saxon Conquest and Conversion
- Ministerial Responsibility
- Monastic Institutions and Their Results
- Common Law and Magna Charta
- Europe and the Norman Invasion
- Ancient Inhabitants of Britain
- Public Prosecutions
- True Nature of a Jacobin War
- National Dignity
- Principles of Government Not Absolute, but Relative
- Declaration of 1793
- Moral Diet
- King William's Policy
- Distemper of Remedy
- War and Will of the People
- False Policy in Our French War
- Moral Essence Makes a Nation
- Public Spirit
- Progressive Growth of Christian States
- Petty Interests
- Pius VII
- Extinction of Local Patriotism
- Walpole and His Policy
- Political Peace
- Public Loans
- Historical Strictures
- Constitution Not the People's Slave
- Modern "Lights."
- Republics in the Abstract
- An English Monarch
- Physiognomy
- The Eye
- Abolition and Use of Parliaments
- Cromwell and His Contrasts
- Delicacy
- Confiscation and Currency
- "Omnipotence of Church Plunder."
- Ugliness
- Grace
- Elegance and Speciousness
- The Beautiful in Feeling
- The Beautiful in Sounds
- British Church