Download or read book The Political Wisdom of Edmund Burke written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon Edmund Burke Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches with a Summary of His Life by Peter Burke written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon Edmund Burke written by Peter Burke and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon Edmund Burke Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from his Writings and Speeches with a Summary of His Life written by Peter Burke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of Edmund Burke Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches with a Summary of His Life written by Edmund Burke (Rt. Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Burke written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Edmund Burke Extracts from His Speeches and Writings written by Edmund Burke (Rt. Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Edmund Burke written by Edmund Burke and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1886 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon Edmund Burke written by Peter Burke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a Series of Extracts From His Writings and Speeches; With a Summary of His Life The present volume proposes to relieve this embar rassment by givin g, under a systematic arrangement, the finer part of the works of Burke The plan adopted is a classification into chapters of the dif ferent subj ects which principally occupied the great statesman's attention; and a formation under each chapter, of a connected series of extracts the most remarkable for eloquence, argument, or style. The whole, with the biographical summary annexed, dis plays a con cise, and, it is submitted, a clear view of what was the luminous course of Burke's action and thought - what were his parliamentary and literary powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon Edmund Burke Illustrated in a Series of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches with a Summary of His Life written by Peter Burke and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of Edmund Burke written by Edward Alloway Pankhurst and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wisdom of Edmund Burke: Extracts From His Speeches and Writings IN the following pages the design of the Editor has been to exhibit the general principles, political, social, and moral, of Edmund Burke. In making a selection from his writings he has sought for those passages which convey some general truth, some deep re ection on human affairs, or are inspired by some great and ennobling sentiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon Edmund Burke written by Peter Burke and published by . This book was released on 1845-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of the Edmund Burke v 01 written by Edmund Burke and published by Golden Book. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the philosophical works of Lord Bolingbroke had appeared, great things were expected from the leisure of a man, who, from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure, had retired to employ those talents in the investigation of truth. Philosophy began to congratulate herself upon such a proselyte from the world of business, and hoped to have extended her power under the auspices of such a leader. In the midst of these pleasing expectations, the works themselves at last appeared in full body, and with great pomp. Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of nature; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind; those who hoped to see morality illustrated and enforced; those who looked for new helps to society and government; those who desired to see the characters and passions of mankind delineated; in short, all who consider such things as philosophy, and require some of them at least in every philosophical work, all these were certainly disappointed; they found the landmarks of science precisely in their former places: and they thought they received but a poor recompense for this disappointment, in seeing every mode of religion attacked in a lively manner, and the foundation of every virtue, and of all government, sapped with great art and much ingenuity. What advantage do we derive from such writings? What delight can a man find in employing a capacity which might be usefully exerted for the noblest purposes, in a sort of sullen labor, in which, if the author could succeed, he is obliged to own, that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to compass the designs they pretend to have in view, by the instruments which they employ. Do they pretend to exalt the mind of man, by proving him no better than a beast? Do they think to enforce the practice of virtue, by denying that vice and virtue are distinguished by good or ill fortune here, or by happiness or misery hereafter? Do they imagine they shall increase our piety, and our reliance on God, by exploding his providence, and insisting that he is neither just nor good? Such are the doctrines which, sometimes concealed, sometimes openly and fully avowed, are found to prevail throughout the writings of Lord Bolingbroke; and such are the reasonings which this noble writer and several others have been pleased to dignify with the name of philosophy. If these are delivered in a specious manner, and in a style above the common, they cannot want a number of admirers of as much docility as can be wished for in disciples. To these the editor of the following little piece has addressed it: there is no reason to conceal the design of it any longer. The design was to show that, without the exertion of any considerable forces, the same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion, might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government; and that specious arguments might be used against those things which they, who doubt of everything else, will never permit to be questioned. It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists, that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause, and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory, than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments. When men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they have thought utterly indefensible, they grow doubtful of their own reason; they are thrown into a sort of pleasing surprise; they run along with the speaker, charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning, where all seemed barren and unpromising. This is the fairy land of philosophy. And it very frequently happens, that those pleasing impressions on the imagination subsist and produce their effect, even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature. There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's Reports that pleased me very much, though I do not know from whence he has taken it: "Interdum fucata falsitas (says he), in multis est probabilior, at sæpe rationibus vincit nudam veritatem." In such cases the writer has a certain fire and alacrity inspired into him by a consciousness, that, let it fare how it will with the subject, his ingenuity will be sure of applause; and this alacrity becomes much greater if he acts upon the offensive, by the impetuosity that always accompanies an attack, and the unfortunate propensity which mankind have to the finding and exaggerating faults. The editor is satisfied that a mind which has no restraint from a sense of its own weakness, of its subordinate rank in the creation, and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects, may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself; and that if we were to examine the divine fabrics by our ideas of reason and fitness, and to use the same method of attack by which some men have assaulted revealed religion, we might with as good color, and with the same success, make the wisdom and power of God in his creation appear to many no better than foolishness. There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others. But this advantage is in a great measure lost, when a painful, comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter, and which requires a great variety of considerations, is to be made; when we must seek in a profound subject, not only for arguments, but for new materials of argument, their measures and their method of arrangement; when we must go out of the sphere of our ordinary ideas, and when we can never walk surely, but by being sensible of our blindness. And this we must do, or we do nothing, whenever we examine the result of a reason which is not our own. Even in matters which are, as it were, just within our reach, what would become of the world, if the practice of all moral duties, and the foundations of society, rested upon having their reasons made clear and demonstrative to every individual? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully handled as obviously it might; it was not his design to say all that could possibly be said. It had been inexcusable to fill a large volume with the abuse of reason; nor would such an abuse have been tolerable, even for a few pages, if some under-plot, of more consequence than the apparent design, had not been carried on.
Download or read book The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Volume 9 written by Edmund Burke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the timeless wisdom and passionate prose of Edmund Burke, one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. From the classic works of philosophy to his powerful speeches on the floor of the British Parliament, this collection is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of political thought. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution in France written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
