Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Fifth

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Author

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797

Title

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)

Credits

Produced by Paul Murray, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Political science -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15701

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15701

Release Date

April 24, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE — IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME THE FIFTH
3. 3.CONTENTS OF VOL. V.
4. 4.OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE MINORITY PARTICULARLY IN THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. ADDRESSED TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND AND LORD FITZWILLIAM. 1793.
5. 5.LETTER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.
6. 6.OBSERVATIONS. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.PREFACE TO THE ADDRESS OF M. BRISSOT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. TRANSLATED BY THE LATE WILLIAM BURKE, ESQ. 1794. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.APPENDIX. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.A LETTER TO WILLIAM ELLIOT, ESQ., OCCASIONED BY THE ACCOUNT GIVEN IN A NEWSPAPER OF THE SPEECH MADE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS BY THE **** OF ******* IN THE DEBATE CONCERNING LORD FITZWILLIAM. 1795. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.THOUGHTS AND DETAILS ON SCARCITY. ORIGINALLY PRESENTED TO THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT, IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 1795.
11. 11.A LETTER TO A NOBLE LORD ON THE ATTACKS MADE UPON MR. BURKE AND HIS PENSION, IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, BY THE DUKE OF BEDFORD AND THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE, EARLY IN THE PRESENT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. 1796. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.THREE LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A MEMBER OF THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT, ON THE PROPOSALS FOR PEACE WITH THE REGICIDE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE. 1796-7.
13. 13.LETTER I. ON THE OVERTURES OF PEACE. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.LETTER II. ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS IT REGARDS OTHER NATIONS. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.LETTER III. ON THE RUPTURE OF THE NEGOTIATION; THE TERMS OF PEACE PROPOSED; AND THE RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF THE WAR. — FOOTNOTES: — BRICKS AND TILES. — PLATE. — GLASS PLATES. — GROCERIES. — TEA. — COFFEE AND COCOA-NUTS. — SUGAR. — BEER, &c. — WINE. — QUANTITY IMPORTED. — SWEETS. — MUSLINS AND CALICOES. — PRINTED GOODS. — SILK. — FURS. — INCLOSURE BILLS. — NAVIGATION AND CANAL BILLS. — POST-HORSE DUTY. — POST-OFFICE. — GENERAL LICENSES. — DEALERS IN TEA. — SELLERS OF PLATE. — AUCTIONS AND AUCTIONEERS. — HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS. — END OF VOL. V.

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