SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE.
By Edmund Burke
CONTENTS
[ SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE. ]
[ NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. ]
[ RETROSPECT AND RESIGNATION. ]
[ DIVINE POWER ON THE HUMAN IDEA. ]
[ UNION OF LOVE AND DREAD IN RELIGION. ]
[ CLEARNESS AND STRENGTH IN STYLE. ]
[ MORAL EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE. ]
[ IMITATION AN INSTINCTIVE LAW. ]
[ STANDARD OF REASON AND TASTE. ]
[ POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. ]
[ MORAL DEBASEMENT PROGRESSIVE. ]
[ THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RULERS. ]
[ ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION. ]
[ PRIVATE CHARACTER A BASIS FOR PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. ]
[ FALSE MAXIMS ASSUMED AS FIRST PRINCIPLES. ]
[ INFLUENCE OF PLACE IN GOVERNMENT. ]
[ TAXATION INVOLVES PRINCIPLE. ]
[ GOOD MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. ]
[ PREPARATION FOR PARLIAMENT. ]
[ BATHURST AND AMERICA'S FUTURE. ]
[ GOVERNMENT AND LEGISLATION. ]
[ PUBLIC SALARY AND PATRIOTIC SERVICE. ]
[ COLONIES AND BRITISH CONSTITUTION. ]
[ FEUDAL PRINCIPLES AND MODERN TIMES. ]
[ LIBELLERS OF HUMAN NATURE. ]
[ PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC INCOME. ]
[ ASSIMILATING POWER OF CONTACT. ]
[ PRUDENCE OF TIMELY REFORM. ]
[ DIFFICULTIES OF REFORMERS. ]
[ ECONOMY AND PUBLIC SPIRIT. ]
[ REFORM OUGHT TO BE PROGRESSIVE. ]
[ INDIVIDUAL GOOD AND PUBLIC BENEFIT. ]
[ BAD LAWS PRODUCE BASE SUBSERVIENCY. ]
[ BRITISH DOMINION IN EAST INDIA. ]
[ THE IMPRACTICABLE UNDESIRABLE. ]
[ CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONS. ]
[ ELECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. ]
[ POPULAR OPINION A FALLACIOUS STANDARD. ]
[ ENGLAND'S EMBASSY TO AMERICA. ]
[ HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST. ]
[ FRENCH AND ENGLISH REVOLUTION. ]
[ CORRUPTION NOT SELF-REFORMED. ]
[ THE BRIBED AND THE BRIBERS. ]
[ REFORMATION AND ANARCHY CONTRASTED AND COMPARED. ]
[ PREROGATIVE OF THE CROWN AND PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT. ]
[ ABSTRACT THEORY OF HUMAN LIBERTY. ]
[ IDEA OF FRENCH REVOLUTION. ]
[ KINGLY POWER NOT BASED ON POPULAR CHOICE. ]
[ PREACHING DEMOCRACY OF DISSENT. ]
[ 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. ]
[ SPIRIT OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION. ]
[ CHIVALRY A MORALIZING CHARM. ]
[ SACREDNESS OF MORAL INSTINCTS. ]
[ 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. ]
[ BRITAIN VINDICATED IN HER WAR WITH FRANCE. ]
[ POLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTION. ]
[ OUTWARD DIGNITY OF THE CHURCH DEFENDED. ]
[ HISTORICAL ESTIMATE OF LOUIS XVI. ]
[ NEGATIVE RELIGION A NULLITY. ]
[ RELATION OF WEALTH TO NATIONAL DIGNITY. ]
[ DIFFICULTY THE PATH TO GLORY. ]
[ ROBESPIERRE AND HIS COUNTERPARTS. ]
[ ACCUMULATION, A STATE PRINCIPLE. ]
[ INFIDELS AND THEIR POLICY. ]
[ WHAT A MINISTER SHOULD ATTEMPT. ]
[ PARLIAMENTARY AND REGAL PREROGATIVE. ]
[ BURKE'S DESIGN IN HIS GREATEST WORK. ]
[ STATE CONSECRATED BY THE CHURCH. ]
[ LEGISLATION AND REPUBLICANS. ]
[ PRINCIPLE OF STATE-CONSECRATION. ]
[ PRINCIPLE OF CHURCH PROPERTY. ]
[ MAJESTY OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. ]
[ ECCLESIASTICAL CONFISCATION. ]
[ USE OF DEFECTS IN HISTORY. ]
[ THE STATE, ITS OWN REVENUE. ]
[ PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL CLAIMS. ]
[ MONASTIC AND PHILOSOPHIC SUPERSTITION. ]
[ DIFFICULTY AND WISDOM OF CORPORATE REFORM. ]
[ DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM. ]
[ FRENCH IGNORANCE OF ENGLISH CHARACTER. ]
[ THE "PEOPLE," AND "OMNIPOTENCE" OF PARLIAMENT. ]
[ MAGNANIMITY OF ENGLISH PEOPLE. ]
[ TRUE BASIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. ]
[ ORDER, LABOUR, AND PROPERTY. ]
[ GOVERNMENT NOT TO BE RASHLY CENSURED. ]
[ NECESSITY, A RELATIVE TERM. ]
[ "PRIESTS OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN." ]
[ BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA. ]
[ GOVERNMENT, RELATIVE, NOT ABSOLUTE. ]
[ EAST-INDIA BILL AND COMPANY. ]
[ PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS. ]
[ PERSECUTION, FALSE IN THEORY. ]
[ WHAT FACTION OUGHT TO TEACH. ]
[ TOLERATION BECOME INTOLERANT. ]
[ WILKES AND RIGHT OF ELECTION. ]
[ 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. ]
[ TRUE NATURE OF A JACOBIN WAR. ]
[ PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT RELATIVE. ]
[ WAR AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE. ]
[ FALSE POLICY IN OUR FRENCH WAR. ]
[ MORAL ESSENCE MAKES A NATION. ]
[ PROGRESSIVE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN STATES. ]
[ EXTINCTION OF LOCAL PATRIOTISM. ]
[ CONSTITUTION NOT THE PEOPLE'S SLAVE. ]
[ REPUBLICS IN THE ABSTRACT. ]
[ ABOLITION AND USE OF PARLIAMENTS. ]
[ CROMWELL AND HIS CONTRASTS. ]
[ CONFISCATION AND CURRENCY. ]
[ "OMNIPOTENCE OF CHURCH PLUNDER." ]
[ ELEGANCE AND SPECIOUSNESS. ]