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

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

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 478 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12).

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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