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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) — Edmund Burke

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 445 pages

The first volume of Edmund Burke's collected works brings together essays and political writings, including A Vindication of Natural Society and A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. It offers a window into eighteenth-century political thought and Burke's prose. Listen for its historical and rhetorical interest.

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Contents

  1. BURKE'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
  2. VOLUME THE FIRST
  3. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE
  4. CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
  5. ADVERTISEMENT
  6. ADVERTISEMENT
  7. A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: OR, A VIEW OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICI
  8. PREFACE.
  9. A LETTER TO LORD ****.
  10. A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL WITH AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERN
  11. PREFACE.
  12. CONTENTS.
  13. INTRODUCTION.
  14. PART I.
  15. PART II.
  16. PART III.
  17. PART IV.
  18. PART V.
  19. A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION. 1766.
  20. OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION, INTITULED "THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION."
  21. 1769.
  22. APPENDIX.
  23. THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS.
  24. 1770.
  25. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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