The Writings and Speeches of Edmund BurkeCosimo, Inc., 2008年1月1日 - 464 頁 This 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume VI, readers will find: . "Fourth Letter on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" . "Letter to the Honorable Charles James Fox, On the American War" . "Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, with Address to the King, and the British Colonists in North America." . "Letters and Reflections on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780" . "Letter to the Right Honorable Henry Dundas: With the Sketch of a Negro Code" . "Fragments of a Tract Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland" . "Letter to William Smith, Esq., On the Subject of Catholic Emancipation" . "Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, On the Catholic Question" . "Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., On Protestant Ascendency in Ireland" . "Letter on the Affairs of Ireland" . and more. |
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LETTER TO THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA November 1 1791 | 113 |
LETTER TO SIR CHARLES BINGHAM BART ON THE IRISH | 121 |
LETTER TO THE HON CHARLES JAMES FOX ON THE AMER | 135 |
LETTER TO THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM WITH | 149 |
LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON EDMUND S PERY IN | 197 |
Two LETTERS TO THOMAS BURGH Esq AND JOHN MER | 207 |
WITH | 255 |
LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE | 291 |
FRAGMENTS OF A TRACT RELATIVE TO THE LAWS AGAINST | 299 |
LETTER TO WILLIAM SMITH ESQ ON THE SUBJECT | 361 |
SECOND LETTER TO SIR HERCULES LANGRISHE ON | 375 |
LETTER TO RICHARD BURKE ESQ ON PROTESTANT | 385 |
LETTER ON THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND 1797 | 413 |
LETTERS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE EXECUTIONS OF | 239 |
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第 45 頁 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
第 60 頁 - As fine as daubers' hands can make it, In hopes that strangers may mistake it ; We think it both a shame and sin To quit the good old Angel Inn.
第 428 頁 - Poor souls, they are to be pitied, who think of nothing but dangers long passed by, and but little of the perils that actually surround them. I have been long, but it is almost a necessary consequence of dictating, and that by snatches, as a relief from pain gives me the means of expressing my sentiments. They can have little weight, as coming from me ; and I have not power enough of mind or body to bring them out with their natural force. But I do not wish to have it concealed that I am of the same...
第 178 頁 - ... it was not because a positive law authorized what was then done, but because the freedom and safety of the subject, the origin and cause of all laws, required a proceeding paramount and superior to them. At that ever memorable and instructive period, the letter of the law was superseded in favor of the substance of liberty.
第 346 頁 - ... provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance, made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
第 345 頁 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second...
第 330 頁 - ... we have partaken from our birth, and meretriciously to hunt abroad after foreign affections, is such a disarrangement of the whole system of our duties, that I do not know whether benevolence so displaced is not almost the same thing as destroyed, or what effect bigotry could have produced that is more fatal to society.
第 408 頁 - forced upon two reluctant kings, the lands of Ireland were put up to a mean and scandalous auction in every goldsmith's shop in London ; or chopped to pieces and cut into rations, to pay the soldiery of Cromwell.
第 345 頁 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles the Second: and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such farther security in that particular as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.