Edmund Burke: A Historical Study

Macmillan and Company, 1867 - Всего страниц: 312

CHAPTER I	1

English parties from 1760 to 1790	13

His appreciation of the relativity of political conceptions	20

The exigencies of practical politics weakened him as a thinker	26

His repugnance to inquiries into the grounds of prevailing beliefs	32

Exhibited as early as 1773	36

A passionate enthusiasm for order the key to his character	46

CHAPTER II	55

Morality of the Declaration of Independence	161

ECONOMICAL REFORM IRELAND AND INDIA	165

Ireland Peculiarity of Irish history	177

India Is the sovereignty over inferior races desirable for	196

and rebutted	203

Policy of Hastings	214

Why France was its earliest centre	231

Its volcanic character not an unmixed evil	239

Their common direction 1 Industrial Development 2 Over	68

THE CONSTITUTION	77

Explanation of popular sympathy with Wilkes	85

Case of Privilege The Printers	91

Employment of military force in civil disturbances	97

Burkes consistent hostility to the Reform projects of his party	103

His own theory of the relations between the House and	109

The social conditions of the Colonies gave room for the expansion	130

Importance of the contest for English and European liberty	140

Mischievous fallacy implied in this conviction	146

This truth forgotten in every part of our colonial policy	152

Their effect on such men as Chateaubriand and De Maistre	245

Burkes evil destiny in falling on this time	253

And of the demolition of all standing ordinances	262

Differences between England and prerevolutionary France	268

Errors in the revolutionary method	276

This method a result of the predominance of the men of letters	282

Illustrated by the laws against the Calvinists	289

The Proletarians and the Church	296

Liberty and the French Revolution	302

The Dogma of the Sovereignty of the People	308

Название	Edmund Burke: A Historical Study Edmund Burke: A Historical Study, John Morley Microbook library of English literature
Автор	John Morley
Издатель	Macmillan and Company, 1867
Владелец оригинала:	Национальная библиотека Чехии
Оцифровано	12 мар 2014
Количество страниц	Всего страниц: 312

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