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).
  to Rt.  Hon. Henry Dundas, with the Sketch of a Negro Code, vi. 255.
  to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, on
    Parliamentary Reform, vi. 291.
  to William Smith, Esq., on Catholic Emancipation, vi. 361.
  to Richard Burke, Esq., on Protestant Ascendency in Ireland, vi. 385.
  on the Affairs of Ireland in 1797, vi. 413.
  on Mr. Dowdeswell’s Bill for explaining the Powers of Juries
    in Prosecutions for Libels, vii. 123.

Libel, the elements of a, vii. 113.

Libelling, not the crime of an illiterate people, vii. 111.

Liberty and commerce, the two main sources of power to Great Britain,
    ii. 87.
  mistakes about liberty, ii. 228.
  cannot long exist among a people generally corrupt, ii. 242.
  necessity of regulating it, iii. 240, 559,
  how far men are qualified for it, iv. 51.
  the distinguishing part of the British constitution, iv. 97.
  its preservation the peculiar duty of the House of Commons, iv. 97.
  order and virtue necessary to its existence, iv. 97.
  a constitution uniting public and private liberty with the elements of
    a beneficent and stable government, an elaborate contrivance, iv. 211.
  partial freedom and true liberty contrasted, vi. 389.
  review of the causes of the revolution in favor of liberty in
    the reign of King John, vii. 472.

Light, how a cause of the sublime, i. 156.
  when excessive, resembles darkness in its effects, i. 157.
  light and riant colors opposed to the sublime, i. 159.

Limerick, treaty of, observations on two of its articles, vi. 345.

Lindisfarne, brief account of, vii. 250.

Liturgy of the Established Church, alteration of it ineffectual
    for the quieting of discontent, vii. 13.

Locke, Mr., his opinion concerning pleasure and pain, i. 105.
  his opinion concerning darkness, i. 225.

Longinus, an observation of his on the effect of sublime
    passages in poets and orators, i. 124.

Lords, House of, affected alarm at a supposed intrenchment by it on
    the balance of the constitution, in the reign of George II., i. 457.
  the feeblest part of the constitution, v. 49.

Loudness, a source of the sublime, i. 159.

Louis XIII., his hatred of Richelieu, iii. 499.

Louis XIV., his dislike to Mazarin and Louvois, iii. 499.
  his conduct at the peace of Ryswick, vi. 58.
  reason given by him for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, vi. 328.

Louis XVI., barbarous treatment experienced by him at the Revolution,
    iii. 325; iv. 19.
  unjustly called an arbitrary monarch, iii. 339.
  degraded office to which he was appointed by the Revolutionists,
    iii. 496; iv. 20.
  not the first cause of the evil by which he suffered, v. 366.
  his character, v. 378.
  character of his brothers, iv. 429.

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