Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.

Thoughts on the Present Discontents, by Edmund Burke
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THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS, AND SPEECHES
BY
EDMUND BURKE. CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED: , LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE . 1886. Contents Introduction Thoughts on the Present Discontents Speech on the Middlesex Election. Speech on the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels. Speech on a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments Speech on Reform of Representation in the House of Commons
INTRODUCTION
Edmund Burke was born at Dublin on the first of January, 1730. His father was an attorney, who had fifteen children, of whom all but four died in their youth. Edmund, the second son, being of delicate health in ...