title: Revolutionary Writings: Reflections On The Revolution In France And The First Letter On A Regicide Peace (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
author:  Edmund Burke 
description: New edition of the leading theoretical articulation against the French Revolution which brings together for the first time Burke's first and last published thoughts on the revolution as well as his Letter on a Regicide Peace. A comprehensive introduction and thorough annotations open up this classic text to modern readers.
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  # Burke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Morley
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  NOTE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE, AND FIRST WRITINGS
  
  
  CHAPTER II. IN IRELAND—PARLIAMENT—BEACONSFIELD
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE ROCKINGHAM PARTY—PARIS—ELECTION
  
  
  AT BRISTOL—THE AMERICAN WAR
  
  
  CHAPTER V. ECONOMICAL REFORM—BURKE IN OFFICE—FALL
  
  
  OF HIS PARTY
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. BURKE AND HIS FRIENDS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. THE NEW MINISTRY—WARREN
  
  
  HASTINGS—BURKE'S PUBLIC POSITION
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. BURKE AND HIS PARTY—PROGRESS OF THE
  
  
  REVOLUTION—IRELAND—LAST YEARS
  
  
  CHAPTER X. BURKE'S LITERARY CHARACTER
  
  
  
  
  
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  BURKE
  
  
  BY
  
  
  JOHN MORLEY
  
  
  London
  
  
  MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
  
  
  NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  
  
  1907
  
  
  _Printed 1888. Reprinted 1892, 1897, 1902, 1907_
  
  
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