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
Government, the forms of a free one not altogether incompatible
with the ends of an arbitrary one, i. 444.
project of government devised in the court of Frederick,
Prince of Wales, i. 447.
considered, i. 450.
nature and design of it, i. 460.
name of it, i. 466.
important ends of a mixed government, i. 469.
folly of hazarding plans of government except from a seat
of authority, ii. 104.
government a practical thing, ii. 227; iii. 310.
character of a free one, ii. 227.
an eminent criterion of a wise one, what, ii. 278.
reform in it should be early and temperate, ii. 280.
without means of some change, is without the means of its
conservation, iii. 259.
difficulty of forming a free one, iii. 560.
the particular form of it to be determined by the circumstances
and habits of a country, iv. 109.
a theory concerning it may be as much a cause of fanaticism as
a dogma in religion, iv. 192.
the establishment of one a difficult undertaking for foreign
powers to act in as principals, iv. 410.
not subject to laws analogous to those or physical life, v. 124, 234.
restraint the great purpose of, v. 133, 189.
policy of, in times of scarcity, v. 156.
important problem concerning, v. 166.
perishes only through its own weakness, v. 169.
impossible where property does not rule, v. 377.
the great objects of, v. 466; vii. 72.
its duty and right to attend much to opinions, vii. 44.
stands on opinion, vii. 91.
Grace, acts of, impolicy of them, ii. 386.
Gracefulness, an idea belonging to posture and motion, i. 200.
Granaries, public, danger in erecting them, v. 153.
fit only for a state too small for agriculture, v. 155.
Grand Seignior, the, not an arbitrary monarch, ix. 464.
Great personages, wisely provided that we should interest
ourselves in their fate, xi. 308.
everywhere made the objects of tragedy, xi. 308.
Greece, its original inhabitants of the same race as the
people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
situation of it from a remote period, vii. 161.
Greek Church, character of its secular clergy, iv. 230.
Green Cloth, Court of, its origin and composition, ii. 304.
Grenville, Mr., character of him, ii. 37.
Grenville, Lord, eulogy of him, v. 174.
Grief, cause of, i. 108.
Guienne, William, Duke of, engages in the Crusade, vii. 374.
Guilt, gigantic, overpowers our ideas of justice, iv. 466.
expedients for concealing it, frequently the cause of its
detection, x. 49.
is never wise, x. 49; xi. 261.
Habeas Corpus, remarks upon the suspension of it in respect
to Americans, ii. 190.
Habit and use, not causes of pleasure, i. 180.
Hale, Sir Matthew, Cromwell's declaration to him when he
appointed him judge, iv. 13.
defect in his History of the Common Law, vii. 476.
causes of it, vii. 476.
Halhed's translation of the Gentoo code, remarks on it, xi. 207.
Hallmote, or Court Baron, what, vii. 301.
Hannay, Colonel, his character and conduct, xi. 418.
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