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SectionTitleReaderNotesListen UrlStatus
1 Introductory Essay  InTheDesert PL OK
2 Appendix  InTheDesert PL OK
3 Nature and Functions of the House of Commons — Retrospect and Resignation — Modesty of Mind — Newton and Nature — Theory and Practice  ej400 PL OK
4 Induction and Comparison — Divine Power on the Human Idea — Union of Love and Dread in Religion — Office of Sympathy — Words  ej400 PL OK
5 Nature Anticipates Man — Self — Inspection — Power of the Obscure — Female Beauty — Novelty and Curiosity  ej400 PL OK
6 Pleasures of Analogy — Ambition — Extensions of Sympathy — Philosophy of Taste — Clearness and Strength in Style  Ariphron PL OK
7 Unity of Imagination — Effect of Words — Investigation — Sublime — Obscurity  Ariphron PL OK
8 Principles of Taste — the Beautiful — the Real and the Ideal — Judgment in Art — Moral Effects of Language  Ariphron PL OK
9 Security of Truth — Imitation an Instinctive Law — Standard of Reason and Taste — Use of Theory — Political Outcasts  earl PL OK
10 Injustice to Our Own Age — False Coalitions — Political Empiricism — a Visionary — Party Divisions  earl PL OK
11 Decorum in Party — not So Bad as We Seem — Politics Without Principle — Moral Debasement Progressive — Despotism  earl PL OK
12 Judgment and Policy — Popular Discontent — the People and Their Rulers — Government Favouritism — Administration and Legislation  RobertGoodwinJr PL OK
13 Influence of the Crown — Voice of the People — Fallacy of Extremes — Private Character a Basis for Public Confidence — Prevention  drandall PL OK
14 Confidence in the People — False Maxims Assumed as First Principles — Lord Chatham — Grenville — Charles Townshend  drandall PL OK
15 Party and Place — Political Connections — Neutrality — Weakness in Government — American Progress  TedL PL OK
16 Combination, not Faction — Great Men — Power of Constituents — Influence of Place in Government — Taxation Involves Principle  TedL PL OK
17 Good Member of Parliament — Fisheries of New England — Preparation for Parliament — Bathurst and America's Future — Candid Policy  TedL PL OK
18 Wisdom of Concession — Magnanimity — Duty of Representatives — Prudential Silence — Colonial Ties  TedL PL OK
19 Government and Legislation — Parliament — Moral Levellers — Public Salary and Patriotic Service — Rational Liberty  TedL PL OK
20 Ireland and Magna Charta — Colonies and British Constitution — Reciprocal Confidence — Pensions and the Crown — Colonial Progress  Steve PL OK
21 Feudal Principles and Modern Times — Restrictive Virtues — Libellers of Human Nature — Refusal a Revenue — a Party Man  TedL PL OK
22 Patriotism and Public Income — American Protestantism — Right of Taxation — Contracted Views — Assimilating Power of Contact  TedL PL OK
23 Prudence of Timely Reform — Difficulties of Reformers — Philosophy of Commerce — Theorizing Politicians — Economy and Public Spirit  TedL PL OK
24 Reform Ought to Be Progressive — Civil Freedom — Tendencies of Power — Individual Good and Public Benefit — Public Corruption  TedL PL OK
25 Cruelty and Cowardice — Bad Laws Produce Base Subserviency — False Regret — British Dominion in East India — Political Charity  TedL PL OK
26 Evils of Distraction — Charles Fox — the Impracticable Undesirable — Constitution of the Commons — Emoluments of Office  TedL PL OK
27 Moral Distinctions — Electors and Representatives — Popular Opinion a Fallacious Standard — English Reformation — Proscription  TedL PL OK
28 Just Freedom — England's Embassy to America — Howard, the Philanthropist — Parliamentary Retrospect — People and Parliament  TedL PL OK
29 Reformed Civil List — French and English Revolution — Armed Discipline — Gilded Despotism — Our French Dangers  TedL PL OK
30 Sir George Saville — Corruption not Self — Reformed — the Bribed and the Bribers — Hyder Ali — Reformation and Anarchy Contrasted and Compared  TedL PL OK
31 Confidence and Jealousy — Economy of Injustice — Subsistence and Revenue — Authority and Venality — Prerogative of the Crown and Privilege of Parliament  TedL PL OK
32 Burke and Fox — Peers and Commons — Natural Self — Destruction — the Carnatic — Abstract Theory of Human Liberty  TedL PL OK
33 Politics and the Pulpit — Idea of French Revolution — Patriotic Distinction — Kingly Power not Based on Popular Choice — Preaching Democracy of Dissent  TedL PL OK
34 Jargon of Republicanism — Conservative Progress of Inherited Freedom — Conservation and Correction — Hereditary Succession of English Crown — Limits of Legislative Capacity  TedL PL OK
35 Our Constitution, not Fabricated, But Inherited — Low Aims and Low Instruments — House of Commons Contrasted with National Assembly — Property, More Than Ability, Represented in Parliament — Virtue and Wisdom Qualify for Government  TedL PL OK
36 Natural and Civil Rights — Marie Antoinette — Spirit of a Gentleman and the Spirit of Religion — Power Survives Opinion — Chivalry a Moralizing Charm  TedL PL OK
37 Sacredness of Moral Instincts — Parental Experience — Revolutionary Scene — Economy on State Principles — Philosophical Vanity; Its Maxims, and Effects  Ariphron PL OK
38 Unity Between Church and State — Triple Basis of French Revolution — Correspondent System of Manners and Morals — Ferocity of Jacobinism — Voice of Oppression  Ariphron PL OK
39 Britain Vindicated in Her War with France — Polish and French Revolution — Europe in 1789 — Atheism Cannot Repent — Outward Dignity of the Church Defended  TedL PL OK
40 Danger of Abstract Views — Appeal to Impartiality — Historical Estimate of Louis Xvi — Negative Religion a Nullity — Antechamber of Regicide  TedL PL OK
41 Tremendousness of War — English Officers — Diplomacy of Humiliation — Relation of Wealth to National Dignity — Ambassadors of Infamy  TedL PL OK
42 Difficulty the Path to Glory — Robespierre and His Counterparts — Accumulation, a State Principle — Warning for a Nation — Santerre and Tallien  TedL PL OK
43 Sir Sydney Smith — a Moral Distinction — Infidels and Their Policy — What a Minister Should Attempt — Law of Vicinity  TedL PL OK
44 European Community — Perils of Jacobin Peace — Parliamentary and Regal Prerogative — Burke's Design in His Greatest Work — Lord Keppel  TedL PL OK
45 "Labouring Poor" — State Consecrated by the Church — Fate of Louis XVIII — Nobility — Legislation and Republicans  TedL PL OK
46 Principle of State-Consecration — British Stability — Literary Atheists — City of Paris — Principle of Church Property  TedL PL OK
47 Parsimony not Economy — Majesty of the British Constitution — Duty not Based on Will — Ecclesiastical Confiscation — Moral of History  TedL PL OK
48 Use of Defects in History — Social Contract — Prescriptive Rights — Madness of Innovation — the State, Its Own Revenue  TedL PL OK
49 Metaphysical Depravity — Personal and Ancestral Claims — Monastic and Philosophic Superstition — Difficulty and Wisdom of Corporate Reform — Distinctive Character of English Protestantism  TedL PL OK
50 Fictitious Liberty — French Ignorance of English Character — the "People," and "Omnipotence" of Parliament — Magnanimity of English People — True Basis of Civil Society  TedL PL OK
51 Rousseau — Moral Heroes — Kingdom of France — Grievance and Opinion — Perplexity and Policy  TedL PL OK
52 Historical Instruction — Montesquieu — Articles, and Scripture — Problem of Legislation — Order, Labour, and Property  TedL PL OK
53 Regicidal Legislature — Government not to Be Rashly Censured — Etiquette — Ancient Establishments — Sentiment and Policy  Hedwig819 PL OK
54 Patriotism — Necessity, a Relative Term — King John and the Pope — Consumption and Produce — "Priests of the Rights of Man"  ej400 PL OK
55 "His Grace" — Speculation and History — Labour and Wages — a Complete Revolution — British Government in India  TedL PL OK
56 Money and Science — Political Axioms — Disappointed Ambition — Difficulty an Instructor — Sovereign Jurisdictions  mleigh PL OK
57 Prudery of False Reform — Exaggeration — Tactics of Cabal — Government, Relative, not Absolute — General Views  mleigh PL OK
58 Magnitude in Building — Society and Solitude — East — India Bill and Company — Parliaments and Elections — Religion and Magistracy  TedL PL OK
59 Persecution, False in Theory — Irish Legislation — Henry of Navarre — Test Acts — What Faction Ought to Teach  ej400 PL OK
60 Grievances by Law — Revolutionary Politics — Toleration Become Intolerant — Wilkes and Right of Election — Rockingham and Conway  TedL PL OK
61 Politics in the Pulpit — William the Conqueror — King Alfred — Druids — Saxon Conquest and Conversion  TedL PL OK
62 Ministerial Responsibility — Monastic Institutions and Their Results — Common Law and Magna Charta — Europe and the Norman Invasion — Ancient Inhabitants of Britain  ej400 PL OK
63 Public Prosecutions — True Nature of a Jacobin War — National Dignity — Principles of Government not Absolute, But Relative — Declaration of 1793  TedL PL OK
64 Moral Diet — King William's Policy — Distemper of Remedy — War and Will of the People — False Policy in Our French War  Remy PL OK
65 Moral Essence Makes a Nation — Public Spirit — Progressive Growth of Christian States — Petty Interests — Pius Vii  mleigh PL OK
66 Extinction of Local Patriotism — Walpole and His Policy — Political Peace — Public Loans — Historical Strictures  TedL PL OK
67 Constitution not the People's Slave — Modern "Lights" — Republics in the Abstract — an English Monarch — Physiognomy  ej400 PL OK
68 The Eye — Abolition and Use of Parliaments — Cromwell and His Contrasts — Delicacy — Confiscation and Currency  TedL PL OK
69 "Omnipotence of Church Plunder" — Ugliness — Grace — Elegance and Speciousness — the Beautiful in Feeling  TedL PL OK
70 The Beautiful in Sounds — British Church  TedL PL OK