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

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BURKE'S WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
VOLUME THE FIRST
EDMUND BURKE.
EDMUND BURKE.
THE WORKS
OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EDMUND BURKE
IN TWELVE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE FIRST
BURKE COAT OF ARMS.

London
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MDCCCLXXXVII
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER, PREFIXED TO THE
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION v
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND OCTAVO EDITION
xvii
A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY: OR, A VIEW
OF THE MISERIES AND EVILS ARISING TO
MANKIND FROM EVERY SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL
SOCIETY 1
PREFACE
A LETTER TO LORD ****
A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF
OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL;
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERNING
TASTE 67
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I
PART II

PART III
PART IV
PART V
APPENDIX
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT
ADMINISTRATION 263
OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION,
INTITULED, "THE PRESENT STATE OF THE
NATION" 269
THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT
DISCONTENTS 433
ADVERTISEMENT
TO THE READER.[1]
The late Mr. Burke, from a principle of unaffected
humility, which they who were the most intimately
acquainted with his character best know to have been in
his estimation one of the most important moral duties,
never himself made any collection of the various
publications with which, during a period of forty years,
he adorned and enriched the literature of this country.
When, however, the rapid and unexampled demand for his
"Reflections on the Revolution in France" had
unequivocally testified his celebrity as a writer, some of
his friends so far prevailed upon him, that he permitted
them to put forth a regular edition of his works.
Accordingly, three volumes in quarto appeared under that
title in 1792, printed for the late Mr. Dodsley. That

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