BurkeCambridge University Press, 17. nov. 2011 - 230 sider This volume on Edmund Burke (1729-97), published in 1879 in the first series of English Men of Letters, was written by the general editor of the series, John Morley (1838-1923). Himself a politician as well as an author, Morley had previously published a 'historical study' of Burke in 1867, but emphasises in an introductory note that this book 'is biographical rather than critical' and is intended as a narrative life. Morley himself was a radical in politics, and his interest in Burke, who he does not hesitate to characterise on occasion as a narrow-minded reactionary, may seem surprising, but he greatly admired his subject's independent political stance, which he describes as a mixture of utilitarian liberalism and historic conservatism, unfettered by abstract doctrine, and which he believed might again come to dominate political discourse in the last decades of the nineteenth century. |
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CHAPTER II | 20 |
CHAPTER III | 39 |
CHAPTER IV | 62 |
CHAPTER V | 87 |
CHAPTER VI | 106 |
CHAPTER VII | 123 |
CHAPTER VIII | 144 |
CHAPTER IX | 178 |
CHAPTER X | 207 |
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