The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

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(From contents): v. 1: Advertisement to the reader

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A vindication of natural society: or, A view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful; with an Introductory discourse concerning taste

v. 2: A short account of a late short administration

Observations on a late publication intituled The present state of the nation

Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents

Speech on American taxation

v. 3: Speech at Mr. Burke's arrival at Bristol, and at the conclusion of the poll

Speech on moving his resolutions for conciliation with America

A letter from Mr. Burke to the sheriff's [sic] of Bristol, on the affairs of America

Two letters from Mr. Burke to gentlemen of the city of Bristol, on the bill depending in Parliament relative to the trade of Ireland

Speech on presenting to the House of Commons, a plan for the better security of the independence of Parliament, and the economical reformation of the civil and other establishments

Speech at Bristol, previous to the election, 1780

Speech at Bristol, on declining the poll

v. 4: Speech on the East-India bill

A representation to His Majesty, moved in the House of Commons, June 14, 1784

Speech on the nabob of Arcot's debts

Appendix to the preceding Speech

v. 5: Substance of the Speech on the army estimates, 1790

Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings of certain societies in London relative to that event

v. 6: Letter to a member of the National Assembly

Appeal from the new to the old Whigs

Letter to a peer of Ireland on the penal laws against Irish Catholicks

Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, bart. M.P. on the subject of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, and the propriety of admitting them to the elective franchise, consistently with the principles of the Constitution, as established at the revolution

v. 7: Hints for a memorial to be delivered to Monsieur de M.M

Thoughts on French affairs

Heads for consideration on the present state of affairs

Remarks on the policy of the allies with respect to France / Appendix

Observations on the conduct of the minority, in a letter addressed to the Duke of Portland and Lord Fitzwilliam

Preface to the Address of M. Brissot to his constituents / Appendix

Letter to William Elliot, Esquire, occasioned by a speech made in the House of Lords by the *** of *******

Thoughts and details on scarcity

v. 8: A letter from the right honourable Edmund Burke, to a noble lord, on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale

Three letters addressed to a member of the present Parliament, on the proposals for peace with the regicide Directory of France

Letter I. On the overtures of peace

Letter II. On the genius and character of the French Revolution as it regards other nations

Letter III. On the rapture of the negociation; the terms of peace proposed; and the resources of the country for the continuance of the war

v. 9: Introductory letter to the right hon. William Elliot

Letter from the right hon. the Lord Auckland, to the Lord bishop of Rochester

Letter from Lord Auckland to the right hon. Edmund Burke

Letter from the right hon. Edmund Burke to Lord Auckland

Letters on a regicide peace, continued from vol. VIII.: Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam

Letter to the Empress of Russia, dated November 1791

Letter to Sir Charles Bingham, bart. dated October 1773; on the Irish absentee tax

Letter to the honourable Charles James Fox, dated October 1777; on the American war

Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, dated January 1777; on a proposed succession from Parliament of members, who had opposed the American war

A proposed address to the King, on the same subject

Address to the right honourable Edmund Perry, speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland, dated July 1778; on a bill for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholick subjects in Ireland

Letter to Thomas Burgh, Esq. dated new year's day 1780; in vindication of the author's Parliamentary conduct, relative to the affairs of Ireland

Letter to John Merlott, Esq. an eminent merchant of Bristol, dated April 1780; on the same subject as the preceding letter

Letters (to the Lord Chancellor, to the Earl Bathurst, and to Sir Grey Cooper) with reflections on the executions of the rioters in 1780

Letter to the right honourable Henry Dundas, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, dated Easter Monday night 1792; with a sketch of the Negro code

Letter to the chairman of the Buckinghamshire meeting, held 13th April 1780, at Aylesbury; on the duration of Parliaments, and a more equal representation of the people

Tracts, relative to the laws against popery in Ireland

Letter to William Smith, Esq. dated January 1795, them member of the Irish Parliament, now one of the barons of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, on the same subject

Second letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, dated May 1795, on the same subject

Letter to Richard Burke, Esq. on the same subject

Letter on the affairs of Ireland, written in the year 1797

v. 10: Fragments and notes of speeches in Parliament: On the Acts of uniformity

On the bill for the relief of the Protestant dissenters

On the petition of the Unitarians

On the Middlesex election

On a bill for shortening the duration of Parliaments

On the reform of the representation in the House of Commons

On the powers of juries in prosecution for libels

A letter on the same subject

On a bill for repealing the marriage act

On the dormant claims of the Church

Hints for an essay on the drama

An abridgement of English history, from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the end of the reign of King John:

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v. 11: Ninth report from the Select committee (of the House of Commons) appointed to take into consideration the state of the administration of justice in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa,

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(25 June 1783)

Eleventh report from the Select committee appointed to take into consideration the state of the administration of justice in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa,

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(1783)

Articles of charge of high crimes and misdemeanors against Warren Hastings, Esquire, late governour-general of Bengal; presented to the House of Commons upon the 4th day of April 1786

v. 12: Articles of charge of high crimes, &c. continued from Vol. XI

Appendix to the VIIIth and XVIth charges, Letter from Warren Hastings, Esq. to William Devaynes

v. 13: Speeches of Mr. Burke on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq

v. 14: Mr. Burke's speech on the sixth charge continued; 25 April, 5 May, and 7 May 1789

Report from Committee appointed to inspect the Lord's journals, in relation to their proceeding on the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq

Appendix to ditto. [Con't] (From title page): v. 15: Continuation of the speeches on the impeachment of Mr. Hastings:

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v. 16: Continuation of the speeches on the impeachment of Mr. Hastings:

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