BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY.

BURKE'S WORKS.

VOL. VI.

Preliminary Volume to the Standard Library Edition of

Burke's Works.

LIFE

OF

THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE,

BY

JAMES PRIOR, ESQ.

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

With Fine Portrait.

Printed uniformly with the present Edition, to which it forms an essential accompaniment.

Price 3s. 6d.

THE WORKS

OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE.

VOL. VI.

MISCELLANEOUS SPEECHES, LETTERS, AND FRAGMENTS
ABRIDGMENT OF ENGLISH HISTORY, ETC.

With a General Endex.

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1890.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. VI.

LETTER to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, held 13th

April, 1780, at Aylesbury; on the Duration of Parliaments, and

a more equal Representation of the People

Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland

Letter to William Smith, Esq., dated January 1795, then Men.ber

of the Irish Parliament, now one of the Barons of the Court of

Exchequer in Ireland, on the same subject
Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, dated May, 1795, on the
same subject

Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., on the same subject
Letter on the Affairs of Ireland, written in the year 1797

Fragments and Notes of Speeches in Parliament:-

On the Acts of Uniformity

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On the Reform of the Representation in the House of Commons

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AN ABRIDGMENT OF ENGLISH HISTORY, from the Invasion of
Julius Cæsar to the End of the Reign of King John. In Three
Books: viz.-

BOOK I.

CHAP. I. Causes of the Connexion between the Romans and Bri-
tons.-Cæsar's two Invasions of Britain

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