The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)Burke, Edmund
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820; Political science -- Early works to 1800
Cantoo Baboo, Mr. Hastings's banian, x. 19.
Canute, his character and conduct, vii. 276.
remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483.
Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151.
Care, appearance of, highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence, i. 154.
Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condition of the country,
ii. 492; iii. 65.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Ali Khân, iii. 62.
Caste, consequences of losing it in India, x. 89.
Castile, different from Catalonia and Aragon, iv. 340.
Castles, great numbers of them built in the reign of Stephen, vii. 389.
Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168.
Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the Penal Laws against, iv. 217.
Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies were not of early
use proved to be erroneous, vii. 184.
Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.
Change and reformation, distinction between, v. 186.
Characters of others, principles which interest us in them, vii. 148.
Charity, observations on, v. 146.
not to be interfered with by the magistrate, v. 146.
Charles I. defended himself on the practice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
his ill-judged attempt to establish the rites of the Church
of England in Scotland, vii. 8.
Charles II. obliged by the sense of the nation to abandon
the Dutch war, ii. 219.
brief character of him, iv. 37.
his government compared with that of Cromwell, iv. 467.
Charles XII. of Sweden, parallel between him and Richard I.
of England, vii. 436.
Charters are kept when their purposes are maintained, ii. 565.
Chatham, Lord, his character, ii. 61.
Cheselden, Mr., his story of a boy who was couched for a cataract, i. 226.
Chester, the County Palatine of, admitted to representation
in Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.
Chesterfield, Lord, his conduct (when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland)
with respect to the Roman Catholics, iv. 235.
Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, nature of his authority, ii. 479; xi. 240.
imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings, xi. 277.
Christendom, the several states of, have all been formed slowly
and without any unity of design, v. 373.
Christianity, original introduction of, into Britain, vii. 221.
Church, the, has power to reform her doctrine, discipline,
and rites, vii. 7.
Church establishment in England, observations on it, iii. 352.
the provision made for its clergy by the state, iii. 364.
education of its clergy contrasted with that of the Roman
Catholic clergy, iv. 231.
eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
Cicero, remarks on his orations against Verres, xii. 349.
Circumstances, importance of them in all political principles,
iii. 240; vii. 55.
Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters relating to agriculture,
v. 146.
Civil list, debts due on it, request for a supply for discharging
them, how made, i. 508.
plan of economy relative to it, ii. 350.
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