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Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

Name: Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund Burke

306 chapters, about 158,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 6,800 words
APPENDIX. 400 words
NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 600 words
RETROSPECT AND RESIGNATION. 300 words
NEWTON AND NATURE. 300 words
INDUCTION AND COMPARISON. 100 words
DIVINE POWER ON THE HUMAN IDEA. 200 words
UNION OF LOVE AND DREAD IN RELIGION. 200 words
WORDS. 200 words
NATURE ANTICIPATES MAN. 200 words
POWER OF THE OBSCURE. 100 words
FEMALE BEAUTY. 100 words
NOVELTY AND CURIOSITY. 200 words
AMBITION. 100 words
EXTENSIONS OF SYMPATHY. 200 words
CLEARNESS AND STRENGTH IN STYLE. 300 words
EFFECT OF WORDS. 400 words
OBSCURITY. 100 words
PRINCIPLES OF TASTE. 300 words
THE REAL AND THE IDEAL. 300 words
MORAL EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE. 400 words
IMITATION AN INSTINCTIVE LAW. 300 words
POLITICAL OUTCASTS. 300 words
INJUSTICE TO OUR OWN AGE. 300 words
POLITICAL EMPIRICISM. 300 words
PARTY DIVISIONS. 300 words
NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM. 200 words
POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE. 200 words
MORAL DEBASEMENT PROGRESSIVE. 200 words
JUDGMENT AND POLICY. 400 words
GOVERNMENT FAVOURITISM. 300 words
ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION. 100 words
INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN. 100 words
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. 300 words
FALLACY OF EXTREMES. 300 words
PRIVATE CHARACTER A BASIS FOR PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. 300 words
CONFIDENCE IN THE PEOPLE. 300 words
FALSE MAXIMS ASSUMED AS FIRST PRINCIPLES. 500 words
LORD CHATHAM. 800 words
GRENVILLE. 400 words
CHARLES TOWNSHEND. 300 words
PARTY AND PLACE. 300 words
POLITICAL CONNECTIONS. 400 words
NEUTRALITY. 200 words
WEAKNESS IN GOVERNMENT. 400 words
COMBINATION, NOT FACTION. 200 words
GREAT MEN. 200 words
POWER OF CONSTITUENTS. 100 words
INFLUENCE OF PLACE IN GOVERNMENT. 400 words
GOOD MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. 200 words
FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 300 words
PREPARATION FOR PARLIAMENT. 300 words
BATHURST AND AMERICA'S FUTURE. 400 words
CANDID POLICY. 200 words
WISDOM OF CONCESSION. 200 words
DUTY OF REPRESENTATIVES. 300 words
COLONIAL TIES. 300 words
MORAL LEVELLERS. 300 words
PUBLIC SALARY AND PATRIOTIC SERVICE. 500 words
RATIONAL LIBERTY. 300 words
IRELAND AND MAGNA CHARTA. 300 words
COLONIES AND BRITISH CONSTITUTION. 400 words
RECIPROCAL CONFIDENCE. 200 words
PENSIONS AND THE CROWN. 200 words
COLONIAL PROGRESS. 200 words
FEUDAL PRINCIPLES AND MODERN TIMES. 400 words
RESTRICTIVE VIRTUES. 200 words
LIBELLERS OF HUMAN NATURE. 400 words
REFUSAL A REVENUE. 400 words
A PARTY MAN. 300 words
PATRIOTISM AND PUBLIC INCOME. 400 words
AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM. 300 words
RIGHT OF TAXATION. 400 words
CONTRACTED VIEWS. 200 words
ASSIMILATING POWER OF CONTACT. 200 words
PRUDENCE OF TIMELY REFORM. 300 words
DIFFICULTIES OF REFORMERS. 200 words
PHILOSOPHY OF COMMERCE. 300 words
THEORIZING POLITICIANS. 200 words
ECONOMY AND PUBLIC SPIRIT. 300 words
REFORM OUGHT TO BE PROGRESSIVE. 200 words
CIVIL FREEDOM. 200 words
TENDENCIES OF POWER. 200 words
INDIVIDUAL GOOD AND PUBLIC BENEFIT. 100 words
PUBLIC CORRUPTION. 200 words
CRUELTY AND COWARDICE. 200 words
BAD LAWS PRODUCE BASE SUBSERVIENCY. 400 words
FALSE REGRET. 100 words
BRITISH DOMINION IN EAST INDIA. 900 words
POLITICAL CHARITY. 100 words
EVILS OF DISTRACTION. 100 words
CHARLES FOX. 1,000 words
CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONS. 200 words
EMOLUMENTS OF OFFICE. 300 words
ELECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. 500 words
POPULAR OPINION A FALLACIOUS STANDARD. 200 words
ENGLISH REFORMATION. 400 words
PROSCRIPTION. 300 words
JUST FREEDOM. 200 words
ENGLAND'S EMBASSY TO AMERICA. 200 words
HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST. 200 words
PARLIAMENTARY RETROSPECT. 300 words
PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT. 200 words
REFORMED CIVIL LIST. 200 words
FRENCH AND ENGLISH REVOLUTION. 700 words
ARMED DISCIPLINE. 200 words
GILDED DESPOTISM. 300 words
OUR FRENCH DANGERS. 100 words
SIR GEORGE SAVILLE. 200 words
CORRUPTION NOT SELF-REFORMED. 200 words
THE BRIBED AND THE BRIBERS. 200 words
HYDER ALI. 600 words
REFORMATION AND ANARCHY CONTRASTED AND COMPARED. 1,000 words
AUTHORITY AND VENALITY. 200 words
PREROGATIVE OF THE CROWN AND PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT. 800 words
BURKE AND FOX. 200 words
PEERS AND COMMONS. 200 words
NATURAL SELF-DESTRUCTION. 100 words
THE CARNATIC. 1,000 words
ABSTRACT THEORY OF HUMAN LIBERTY. 600 words
POLITICS AND THE PULPIT. 100 words
IDEA OF FRENCH REVOLUTION. 100 words
PATRIOTIC DISTINCTION. 100 words
KINGLY POWER NOT BASED ON POPULAR CHOICE. 900 words
PREACHING DEMOCRACY OF DISSENT. 400 words
JARGON OF REPUBLICANISM. 400 words
CONSERVATIVE PROGRESS OF INHERITED FREEDOM. 600 words
CONSERVATION AND CORRECTION. 300 words
HEREDITARY SUCCESSION OF ENGLISH CROWN. 800 words
LIMITS OF LEGISLATIVE CAPACITY. 200 words
OUR CONSTITUTION, NOT FABRICATED, BUT INHERITED. 900 words
LOW AIMS AND LOW INSTRUMENTS. 600 words
HOUSE OF COMMONS CONTRASTED WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. 600 words
PROPERTY, MORE THAN ABILITY, REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT. 500 words
VIRTUE AND WISDOM QUALIFY FOR GOVERNMENT. 300 words
NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS. 1,600 words
MARIE ANTOINETTE. 700 words
POWER SURVIVES OPINION. 100 words
CHIVALRY A MORALIZING CHARM. 700 words
SACREDNESS OF MORAL INSTINCTS. 600 words
PARENTAL EXPERIENCE. 600 words
REVOLUTIONARY SCENE. 600 words
ECONOMY ON STATE PRINCIPLES. 800 words
PHILOSOPHICAL VANITY; ITS MAXIMS, AND EFFECTS. 3,100 words
UNITY BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. 900 words
II.--JACOBINISM. 100 words
III.--ATHEISM. 200 words
CORRESPONDENT SYSTEM OF MANNERS AND MORALS. 600 words
FEROCITY OF JACOBINISM. 500 words
VOICE OF OPPRESSION. 200 words
BRITAIN VINDICATED IN HER WAR WITH FRANCE. 500 words
POLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTION. 900 words
EUROPE IN 1789. 500 words
ATHEISM CANNOT REPENT. 100 words
OUTWARD DIGNITY OF THE CHURCH DEFENDED. 1,000 words
DANGER OF ABSTRACT VIEWS. 300 words
APPEAL TO IMPARTIALITY. 200 words
HISTORICAL ESTIMATE OF LOUIS XVI. 1,000 words
NEGATIVE RELIGION A NULLITY. 300 words
ANTECHAMBER OF REGICIDE. 500 words
TREMENDOUSNESS OF WAR. 200 words
ENGLISH OFFICERS. 500 words
DIPLOMACY OF HUMILIATION. 400 words
RELATION OF WEALTH TO NATIONAL DIGNITY. 400 words
AMBASSADORS OF INFAMY. 600 words
DIFFICULTY THE PATH TO GLORY. 200 words
ROBESPIERRE AND HIS COUNTERPARTS. 600 words
ACCUMULATION, A STATE PRINCIPLE. 200 words
WARNING FOR A NATION. 900 words
SANTERRE AND TALLIEN. 700 words
SIR SYDNEY SMITH. 600 words
A MORAL DISTINCTION. 100 words
INFIDELS AND THEIR POLICY. 800 words
WHAT A MINISTER SHOULD ATTEMPT. 800 words
LAW OF VICINITY. 800 words
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. 600 words
PERILS OF JACOBIN PEACE. 900 words
PARLIAMENTARY AND REGAL PREROGATIVE. 600 words
BURKE'S DESIGN IN HIS GREATEST WORK. 500 words
LORD KEPPEL. 1,000 words
"LABOURING POOR." 500 words
STATE CONSECRATED BY THE CHURCH. 1,000 words
FATE OF LOUIS XVIII. 300 words
NOBILITY. 800 words
LEGISLATION AND REPUBLICANS. 700 words
PRINCIPLE OF STATE-CONSECRATION. 600 words
BRITISH STABILITY. 700 words
LITERARY ATHEISTS. 700 words
CITY OF PARIS. 600 words
PRINCIPLE OF CHURCH PROPERTY. 900 words
PARSIMONY NOT ECONOMY. 300 words
MAJESTY OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. 400 words
DUTY NOT BASED ON WILL. 500 words
ECCLESIASTICAL CONFISCATION. 600 words
MORAL OF HISTORY. 500 words
USE OF DEFECTS IN HISTORY. 500 words
SOCIAL CONTRACT. 400 words
PRESCRIPTIVE RIGHTS. 600 words
MADNESS OF INNOVATION. 500 words
THE STATE, ITS OWN REVENUE. 400 words
METAPHYSICAL DEPRAVITY. 600 words
PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL CLAIMS. 500 words
MONASTIC AND PHILOSOPHIC SUPERSTITION. 400 words
DIFFICULTY AND WISDOM OF CORPORATE REFORM. 600 words
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM. 600 words
FRENCH IGNORANCE OF ENGLISH CHARACTER. 300 words
THE "PEOPLE," AND "OMNIPOTENCE" OF PARLIAMENT. 700 words
MAGNANIMITY OF ENGLISH PEOPLE. 500 words
TRUE BASIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY. 400 words
ROUSSEAU. 400 words
MORAL HEROES. 400 words
KINGDOM OF FRANCE. 400 words
GRIEVANCE AND OPINION. 400 words
PERPLEXITY AND POLICY. 400 words
HISTORICAL INSTRUCTION. 200 words
MONTESQUIEU. 300 words
ARTICLES, AND SCRIPTURE. 300 words
PROBLEM OF LEGISLATION. 300 words
ORDER, LABOUR, AND PROPERTY. 300 words
REGICIDAL LEGISLATURE. 300 words
GOVERNMENT NOT TO BE RASHLY CENSURED. 300 words
ETIQUETTE. 300 words
ANCIENT ESTABLISHMENTS. 200 words
SENTIMENT AND POLICY. 200 words
PATRIOTISM. 200 words
NECESSITY, A RELATIVE TERM. 200 words
KING JOHN AND THE POPE. 800 words
"PRIESTS OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN." 600 words
"HIS GRACE." 400 words
SPECULATION AND HISTORY. 1,300 words
LABOUR AND WAGES. 1,900 words
A COMPLETE REVOLUTION. 300 words
BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA. 100 words
MONEY AND SCIENCE. 500 words
II. 600 words
VIII. 300 words
XI. 300 words
DISAPPOINTED AMBITION. 100 words
DIFFICULTY AN INSTRUCTOR. 500 words
SOVEREIGN JURISDICTIONS. 300 words
PRUDERY OF FALSE REFORM. 500 words
EXAGGERATION. 400 words
TACTICS OF CABAL. 300 words
GOVERNMENT, RELATIVE, NOT ABSOLUTE. 600 words
GENERAL VIEWS. 500 words
MAGNITUDE IN BUILDING. 300 words
SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE. 200 words
EAST-INDIA BILL AND COMPANY. 1,200 words
PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS. 2,200 words
RELIGION AND MAGISTRACY. 500 words
PERSECUTION, FALSE IN THEORY. 500 words
IRISH LEGISLATION. 300 words
HENRY OF NAVARRE. 300 words
TEST ACTS. 300 words
WHAT FACTION OUGHT TO TEACH. 200 words
GRIEVANCES BY LAW. 800 words
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS. 400 words
TOLERATION BECOME INTOLERANT. 700 words
WILKES AND RIGHT OF ELECTION. 1,700 words
ROCKINGHAM AND CONWAY. 900 words
POLITICS IN THE PULPIT. 1,200 words
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. 700 words
KING ALFRED. 1,400 words
DRUIDS. 800 words
SAXON CONQUEST AND CONVERSION. 900 words
MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY. 400 words
MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR RESULTS. 2,600 words
COMMON LAW AND MAGNA CHARTA. 1,300 words
EUROPE AND THE NORMAN INVASION. 2,300 words
ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF BRITAIN. 1,500 words
PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS. 700 words
TRUE NATURE OF A JACOBIN WAR. 2,000 words
PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT NOT ABSOLUTE, BUT RELATIVE. 700 words
DECLARATION OF 1793. 800 words
MORAL DIET. 200 words
KING WILLIAM'S POLICY. 1,200 words
DISTEMPER OF REMEDY. 500 words
WAR AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE. 800 words
FALSE POLICY IN OUR FRENCH WAR. 800 words
MORAL ESSENCE MAKES A NATION. 300 words
PUBLIC SPIRIT. 400 words
PROGRESSIVE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN STATES. 600 words
PETTY INTERESTS. 200 words
PIUS VII. 600 words
EXTINCTION OF LOCAL PATRIOTISM. 800 words
WALPOLE AND HIS POLICY. 700 words
POLITICAL PEACE. 600 words
PUBLIC LOANS. 700 words
HISTORICAL STRICTURES. 2,000 words
CONSTITUTION NOT THE PEOPLE'S SLAVE. 1,000 words
MODERN "LIGHTS." 200 words
REPUBLICS IN THE ABSTRACT. 400 words
AN ENGLISH MONARCH. 200 words
THE EYE. 200 words
ABOLITION AND USE OF PARLIAMENTS. 900 words
CROMWELL AND HIS CONTRASTS. 700 words
DELICACY. 300 words
CONFISCATION AND CURRENCY. 1,400 words
"OMNIPOTENCE OF CHURCH PLUNDER." 400 words
UGLINESS. 100 words
GRACE. 100 words
ELEGANCE AND SPECIOUSNESS. 100 words
THE BEAUTIFUL IN FEELING. 600 words
THE BEAUTIFUL IN SOUNDS. 500 words
BRITISH CHURCH. 800 words
INDEX. 3,100 words

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