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
Equity, criminal, a monster in jurisprudence, i. 500.
Established Church, the, should be powerful, but comprehensive
and tolerant, vii. 36.
Established religion of a state, has often torn to pieces the
civil establishment, vi. 357.
Establishment, legal, ground of a legislative alteration of it, vii. 10.
ground of the constitutional provision for the exclusive
application of tithes to its support, vii. 12.
Etiquette, its signification and uses, v. 434.
Europe, general division of, before the universal prevalence
of the Roman power, vii. 159.
the original inhabitants of Greece and Italy of the same race
with the people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
view of the state of Europe at the time of the Norman invasion, vii. 327.
Evidence, circumstantial, remarks on it, xi. 93.
Example, of men of principle, never without use, i. 426.
the only argument of effect in civil life, i. 499.
what the only security against a corrupt one, ii. 238.
the school of mankind, v. 331.
Executions of criminals, observations on them, vi. 245.
Exercise necessary to the finer organs, i. 216.
Expression, difference between a clear and a strong one, i. 260.
Eye, the, in what its beauty consists, i. 198.
Eyre, Sir Robert, (Solicitor-General,) extracts from his
speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 138.
Factions, formed upon and generate opinions, vii. 44.
Fame, a passion for it, the instinct of all great souls, ii. 65.
the separation of it from virtue, a harsh divorce, ii. 243.
Fanaticism, epidemical, formidable nature of it, iii. 435.
may be caused by a theory concerning government as much as by
a dogma in religion, iv. 192.
Farmer, dangerous to try experiments on him, v. 147.
amount of his usual profits, what, v. 148.
difficulties of his business, v. 152.
Favoritism, a system of, in the executory government of England,
at variance with the plan of the legislature, i. 469.
Fear, cause of it, i. 210.
early and provident fear the mother of safety, vii. 50.
Feeling, the beautiful in, i. 201.
Female sex, the moral sensibility more acute in them then in men, xii. 164.
Finances, three standards to judge of the condition of a nation
with regard to them, i. 330.
importance of them to a state, iii. 534.
admirable management of the French finances under Necker, ii. 273.
Financier, duty of a judicious one in respect to his calculations, i. 348.
his objects, what, iii. 538, 558.
Fire, a chief object of worship to the Druids, why, vii. 182.
Firmness, a virtue only when it accompanies the most perfect
wisdom, i. 440.
Fitness, not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
the real effects of it, i. 184.
Flattery, why so prevalent, i. 124.
Florence, republic of, its origin, vii. 331.
Force, not impaired, either in effect or opinion, by an
unwillingness to exert itself, ii. 108.
objections to its employment against the American colonies, ii. 118.
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