EDMUND BURKE

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest...

“Id dico, eum qui sit orator, virum bonum esse oportere. In omnibus quae dicit tanta auctoritas inest, ut dissentire pudeat; nec advocati studium, sed testis aut judicis afferat fidem. ”— Quintilianus.

Volume 1 of Select Works of Edmund Burke contains ""Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents"" (1770), Burke's brilliant defense of the American colonists' complaints of British policy. Faithfully reproduced in this volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth c...

« L’Assemblée nationale recommande à sa jeunesse l’étude des innovateurs les plus osés en matière de moralité. On sait que le grand sujet de dispute entre ses chefs est de savoir lequel d’entre eux ressemble le plus à Rousseau. La vérité est qu’ils lui ressemblent tous. » Publiée peu après Réflexions sur la Révolution de France (1791), La lettre...

Burke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution’s attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established...