Burke, Edmund 1729-1797

Reflections on the revolution in France by Edmund Burke ( Book )
446 editions published between 1790 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 3,302 libraries worldwide
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a slashing attack on the French Revolution by one of Britain's most famous statesmen. Liberty and social order, Burke argues, are maintained by the traditional rights and duties embedded in custom and law. And when these traditions are overthrown in revolutions, society is threatened with chaos, bloodshed and despotism.

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful by Edmund Burke ( Book )
315 editions published between 1757 and 2010 in 9 languages and held by 2,318 libraries worldwide
This€is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever written. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of 'the beautiful', Burke's subject here was that quality he uniquely distinguished as 'the sublime' - an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it.€The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke's essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.

Speech on conciliation with America by Edmund Burke ( Book )
313 editions published between 1775 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,737 libraries worldwide
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [72].

The philosophy of Edmund Burke; a selection from his speeches and writings by Edmund Burke ( Book )
14 editions published between 1960 and 2001 in English and Chinese and held by 1,178 libraries worldwide

Burke's politics; selected writings and speeches on reform, revolution and war by Edmund Burke ( Book )
2 editions published in 1949 in English and held by 1,082 libraries worldwide

Speeches and letters on American affairs by Edmund Burke ( Book )
55 editions published between 1908 and 1961 in English and held by 935 libraries worldwide

The correspondence of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke ( Book )
23 editions published between 1958 and 1978 in English and held by 873 libraries worldwide

On taste ; On the sublime and beautiful ; Reflections on the French revolution ; A letter to a noble lord by Edmund Burke ( Book )
21 editions published between 1909 and 2004 in English and held by 817 libraries worldwide

On taste by Edmund Burke ( Book )
5 editions published between 1909 and 2001 in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
The introductory discourse to the aesthetic treatise On the Sublime and Beautiful.

The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke ( Book )
159 editions published between 1792 and 2008 in English and Chinese and held by 665 libraries worldwide
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