A Magazine of Wisdom
Linda Colley, 4 September 1997
Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature
by Nicholas Robinson.
Yale, 214 pp., £30, October 1996,0 300 06801 8 Show More
by Nicholas Robinson.
Yale, 214 pp., £30, October 1996,
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. III: Party, Parliament and the American War 1774-80
edited by Warren Elofson and John Woods.
Oxford, 713 pp., £75, September 1996,0 19 822414 1 Show More
edited by Warren Elofson and John Woods.
Oxford, 713 pp., £75, September 1996,
Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire
by Frederick Whelan.
Pittsburgh, 384 pp., £39.95, December 1996,0 8229 3927 4 Show More
by Frederick Whelan.
Pittsburgh, 384 pp., £39.95, December 1996,
“... over six hundred times. Indeed, in this latest volume of the collected speeches and writings, Warren Elofson calculates that Burke spoke more than any other Parliamentarian between 1774 and 1776 except Lord North, the Prime Minister. It follows that some of the extreme ingenuity which has been expended on trying to reconstruct a coherent Burkeian ... ”