Burke, Edmund. 1909–14. A Letter to a Noble Lord. Vol. 24, Part 4. The Harvard Classics

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

—Speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784.

Edmund
Burke

Harvard Classics, Vol. 24, Part 4

A Letter to a Noble Lord

From the Right Hon. 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, Early in the Present Session of Parliament, 1796

Edmund Burke

This response to Parliament’s objection to Burke’s state pension is the height of the master of prosaic irony.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001


Introductory Note: Paras. 1–19; Paras. 20–39; Paras. 40–59; Paras. 60–83

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