SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE.
By Edmund Burke
CONTENTS
[ INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. ]
[ APPENDIX. ]
[ SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF EDMUND BURKE. ]
[ 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. ]
[ 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. ]