Burke's Speeches.
by Edmund Burke
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Tan leather binding with red title plate and gilt banding on the spine. Rebacked in 1971.
A quality example Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was a Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society. He criticised the actions of the British government towards the American colonies, including its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence. He is remembered for his support for Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company, and his staunch opposition to the French Revolution. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke asserted that the revolution was destroying the fabric of good society and traditional institutions of state and society and condemned the persecution of the Catholic Church that resulted from it. This led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig Party which he dubbed the Old Whigs as opposed to the pro–French Revolution New Whigs led by Charles James Fox. In the 19th century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals. Subsequently in the 20th century, he became widely regarded as the philosophical founder of conservatism. Yet he was a lifelong Whig, and his famous refusal to accept directions from his Bristol electors was founded on his conscientious objection to supporting in Parliament their lucrative slave trade.
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB223 /4D
- Title
- Burke's Speeches.
- Author
- Edmund Burke
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J Dodsley. Pall Mall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1775
- Size
- 14 x22 x3cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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