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).

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).

Justice is slow, injury quick and rapid, x. 151; xi. 181.
  general observations on it, xii. 393, 395.

Keppel, Lord, character of him, v. 222.

Kilkenny, Statutes of, prove the ancient existence in Ireland
    of the spirit of the Popery laws, iv. 273.

King, the things in which he has an individual interest, i. 485.
  nature of his office, iii. 497.
  just powers of the king of France, iv. 49.
  power of the king of England, iv. 50. 
  Address to the, in relation to the Measures of Government in
    the American Contest, vi. 161.

Kings, naturally lovers of low company, ii. 337.
  in what sense the servants of the people, iii. 269.

King’s Men, or King’s Friends, character of the court corporation
    so called, i. 466.

Knight-errantry, origin of it, vii. 390.

Labor, necessary, why, i. 215.
  human labor called by the ancients instrumentum vocale, v. 140.
  that on which the farmer is most to rely for the repayment
    of his capital, v. 140.

Laborer and employer, always an implied contract between them, v. 137.
  the first and fundamental interest of the laborer, what, v. 140.

Laboring poor, impropriety of the expression, v. 135, 466.

Lacedemonians, at the head of the aristocratic interests of Greece,
    iv. 321.

La Fontaine, has not one original story, vii. 145.

Lancaster, Duchy and County Palatine of, severed from the crown
    by Henry IV., ii. 296.

Landed estate of the crown, remarks on it, ii. 299.

Landed Interest, policy of the French Republic with regard to it, iv. 323.

Landed property, the firm basis of every stable government, v. 491.

Lanfranc, character of him, vii. 363.

Langton, Stephen, his appointment to the see of Canterbury
    through the influence of the Pope, vii. 447, 451.
  oath administered by him to King John on his absolution, vii. 455.

Law’s Mississippi scheme, character of it, iii. 554.

Law of neighborhood, what, v. 321.

Law, remarks on the study of it, ii. 125.

Laws, reach but a very little way, i. 470.
  their severity tempered by trial by jury, i. 499.
  superseded by occasions of public necessity, ii. 329.
  bad ones the worst sort of tyranny, ii. 395.
  laws and manners, a knowledge of what belongs to each the duty
    of a statesman, v. 167.
  civil laws not all merely positive, v. 321.
  two things requisite to the solid establishment of them, vi. 321.
  equity and utility, the two foundations of them, vi. 323.
  ought to be in unison with manners, vii. 27.
  of England, Essay towards an History of the, vii. 475.
  of England, written in the native language until the Norman
    Conquest, vii. 481.
  of other Northern nations, written in Latin, vii. 481.

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