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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke · 1877

A collected edition of Edmund Burke's own political and philosophical writings, printed in 1877.

This volume preserves Burke's own political and philosophical writings, authored by him.

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Title page of volume II of The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Fifth Edition, printed in Boston by Little, Brown, and Company, 1877. Features a crest with a cat on top and a banner below, and a small decorative monogram.
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Fifth Edition, vol. II. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1877.

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This is a volume from a collected edition of the writings of Edmund Burke, printed in Boston in 1877 by Little, Brown, and Company. It brings together his political and philosophical works in one set.

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Burke's writings shaped political thought on topics such as the American colonies and the French Revolution. A collected edition like this lets readers study his own words directly, rather than summaries of his ideas.

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  • Why might publishers decide to collect a statesman's writings into one set, decades after his death?
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Title page of 'Reflections on the Revolution in France', set in serif capitals. Text reads: on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event, in a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris, by the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCXC. Yellowed paper with a faint stamp mark in the middle.Book

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke · November 1790

Front cover of a brown bound volume with a cream paper label typed 'Burke' and 'Two Speeches at Bristol'. Top left has library call number DA 507 1775 B918 and a blue California library sticker on the left edge with a barcode.Speech

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Speech to the Electors of Bristol

Edmund Burke · 3 November 1774

Title page of a book: "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", with an ornate knot-work emblem below, and the imprint 'London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall. MDCCLVII'.Book

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund Burke · 1757

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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Edmund Burke · 23 April 1770

Oil portrait of a man with powdered grey hair in a loose queue, wearing a red coat with dark collar and a cream lace cravat, turned three-quarters to the left against a dark background.Painting

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Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. Statesman, orator and author

Joshua Reynolds · 1774

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