Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. Edmund Burke

OF COMMONS CONTRASTED WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

       PROPERTY, MORE THAN ABILITY, REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT.

       VIRTUE AND WISDOM QUALIFY FOR GOVERNMENT.

       NATURAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS.

       MARIE ANTOINETTE.

       SPIRIT OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION.

       POWER SURVIVES OPINION.

       CHIVALRY A MORALIZING CHARM.

       SACREDNESS OF MORAL INSTINCTS.

       PARENTAL EXPERIENCE.

       REVOLUTIONARY SCENE.

       ECONOMY ON STATE PRINCIPLES.

       PHILOSOPHICAL VANITY; ITS MAXIMS, AND EFFECTS.

       UNITY BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE.

       TRIPLE BASIS OF FRENCH REVOLUTION.

       I.—REGICIDE.

       II.—JACOBINISM.

       III.—ATHEISM.

       CORRESPONDENT SYSTEM OF MANNERS AND MORALS.

       FEROCITY OF JACOBINISM.

       VOICE OF OPPRESSION.

       BRITAIN VINDICATED IN HER WAR WITH FRANCE.

       POLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTION.

       EUROPE IN 1789.

       ATHEISM CANNOT REPENT.

       OUTWARD DIGNITY OF THE CHURCH DEFENDED.

       DANGER OF ABSTRACT VIEWS.

       APPEAL TO IMPARTIALITY.

       HISTORICAL ESTIMATE OF LOUIS XVI.

       NEGATIVE RELIGION A NULLITY.

       ANTECHAMBER OF REGICIDE.

       TREMENDOUSNESS OF WAR.

       ENGLISH OFFICERS.

       DIPLOMACY OF HUMILIATION.

       RELATION OF WEALTH TO NATIONAL DIGNITY.

       AMBASSADORS OF INFAMY.

       DIFFICULTY THE PATH TO GLORY.

       ROBESPIERRE AND HIS COUNTERPARTS.

       ACCUMULATION, A STATE PRINCIPLE.

       WARNING FOR A NATION.

       SANTERRE AND TALLIEN.

       SIR SYDNEY SMITH.

       A MORAL DISTINCTION.

       INFIDELS AND THEIR POLICY.

       WHAT A MINISTER SHOULD ATTEMPT.

       LAW OF VICINITY.

       EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.

       PERILS OF JACOBIN PEACE.

       PARLIAMENTARY AND REGAL PREROGATIVE.

       BURKE'S DESIGN IN HIS GREATEST WORK.

       LORD KEPPEL.

       "LABOURING POOR."

       STATE CONSECRATED BY THE CHURCH.

       FATE OF LOUIS XVIII.

       NOBILITY.

       LEGISLATION AND REPUBLICANS.

       PRINCIPLE OF STATE-CONSECRATION.

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