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Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 22 March 1775
Text 4 : Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 22 March 1775. Questions 1) This speech was delivered on 22 march 1775 in the House of Commons, during the American War of Indenpendance. Edmund Burke expresses his support to American colonies. He wants to restore relations between the British government and American colonies. He wants to change British policy towards the colonies by re-evaluate the question of taxing. 2) Burke uses differents rhetorical devices to persuade his...
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Burke, Edmund
Burke, Edmund (1729-97) Edmund Burke's philosophical importance lies in two fields, aesthetics and political theory. His early work on aesthetics, the Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), explored the experiential sources of these two, as he claimed, fundamental responses, relating them respectively to terror at the fear of death and to the love of society. Active in politics from 1759, and Member of Parliament from 1765, he wrote and deliver...
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Edmund Burke, « Première lettre sur les ouvertures de paix » (1796)
MELLINAS Thomas 1 Document : Edmund Burke, « Première lettre sur les ouvertures de paix » (1796) « La guerre des partisans de l’antique ordre civil, moral et politique de l’Europe contre une secte d’athées fanatiques et ambitieux qui en ont juré la ruine » : Edmund Burke exprime ainsi l’idée de son désaccord avec la Révolution Française. Ce document a été rédigé par Edmund Burke, en 1796 et traduit en 1797. Elle a été écrite à dest...