The Best of Burke

by Burke, Edmund; Stanlis, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780895263988
• ISBN10: 089526398X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Gateway Books

Summary

No conservative library is complete without the thought of Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism.

Author Biography

Peter J. Stanlis, Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Rockford College, has specialized in eighteenth-century English thought and literature for over four decades and is the leading authority on Burke in the United States

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Chronological Table	xi
Introduction	1	(46)
I. EARLY WRITINGS
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)	47	(29)
An Abridgment of English History (1757)	76	(28)
Selections from Book Reviews in the Annual Register (1759--62)	104	(13)
II. AMERICA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE
A Short Account of a Late Short Administration (1766)	117	(4)
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)	121	(55)
Speech on Conciliation (1775)	176	(47)
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)	223	(30)
III. IRELAND AND CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION
Tract on the Popery Laws (1765)	253	(21)
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland (1782)	274	(14)
A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)	288	(32)
A Letter to Richard Burke (1793)	320	(10)
A Letter to William Smith (1795)	330	(5)
Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1795)	335	(6)
IV. ECONOMICAL REFORM
Speech on Economical Reform (1780)	341	(22)
V. MISCELLANEOUS CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
Speech on the Middlesex Election (1771)	363	(2)
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
Speech on the Acts of Uniformity (1772)	365	(7)
Speech on the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (1773)	372	(5)
Speech on the Petition of the Unitarian Society (1792)	377	(6)
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
A Letter on Parliamentary Reform (1780)	383	(3)
Speech on the Duration of Parliaments (1780)	386	(9)
Speech on the Representation of the Commons in Parliament (1782)	395	(12)
VI. INDIA AND THE IMPEACHMENT OF HASTINGS
Report of the Select Committee on India (1783)	407	(32)
Speech on Fox's East India Bill (1783)	439	(27)
Speeches in Opening the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788)	466	(19)
Speech on the Sixth Article of Charge. Fourth Day (1789)	485	(1)
Speech in General Reply (1794)	486	(17)
VII. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
A Letter to M. Depont (1789)	503	(8)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)	511	(98)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)	609	(14)
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)	623	(35)
A Letter to William Elliot, Esq. (1795)	658	(7)
VIII. DEFENSE OF HIS LIFE
A Letter to a Noble Lord (1795)	665	(34)
A Selected Bibliography	699