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Title: Burke
Author: John Morley
Release Date: July 17, 2004 [EBook #12922]
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BURKE
BY
JOHN MORLEY
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1907
_Printed 1888. Reprinted 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907_
(_A Library Edition, of the book published in the "English Men of
Letters Series_)
NOTE
The present writer published a study on Burke some twenty years ago.
It was almost entirely critical, and in no sense a narrative. The
volume that is now submitted to my readers first appeared in the
series of _English Men of Letters_. It is biographical rather
than critical, and not more than about a score of pages have been
reproduced in it from the earlier book. Three pages have been inserted
from an article on Burke contributed by me to the new edition of the
_Encyclopoedia Britannica_; and I have to thank Messrs. Black for
the great courtesy with which they have allowed me to transcribe the
passage here. These borrowings from my former self, the reader will
perhaps be willing to excuse, on the old Greek principle that a man
may once say a thing as he would have it said, [Greek: dis de ouk
endechetai]--he can hardly say it twice.
J.M.
1888.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
EARLY LIFE AND FIRST WRITINGS
CHAPTER II
IN IRELAND--PARLIAMENT--BEACONSFIELD
CHAPTER III
THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE
CHAPTER IV
THE ROCKINGHAM PARTY--PARIS--ELECTION AT BRISTOL--THE AMERICAN WAR
CHAPTER V
ECONOMICAL REFORM--BURKE IN OFFICE--FALL OF HIS PARTY
CHAPTER VI
BURKE AND HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER VII
THE NEW MINISTRY--WARREN HASTINGS--BURKE'S PUBLIC POSITION
CHAPTER VIII
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
CHAPTER IX
BURKE AND HIS PARTY--PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION--IRELAND--LAST YEARS
CHAPTER X
BURKE'S LITERARY CHARACTER
BURKE
CHAPTER I
EARLY LIFE, AND FIRST WRITINGS
It will soon be a hundred and twenty years since Burke
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