Thoughts on the Present Discontents
by Edmund Burke
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About this eBook
- Author
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Title
- Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1886 Cassell & Company edition by David Price. and proofing by David, Terry L. Jeffress, Edgar A. Howard
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 2173
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2173
- Release Date
- May 1, 2000
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS, AND SPEECHES
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS
- 4.SPEECH ON THE MIDDLESEX ELECTION February , 1771
- 5.SPEECH ON THE POWERS OF JURIES IN PROSECUTIONS FOR LIBELS March , 1771
- 6.SPEECH ON A BILL FOR SHORTENING THE DURATION OF PARLIAMENTS
- 7.SPEECH ON REFORM OF REPRESENTATION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS June , 1784
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