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Burkes Speech On Conciliation With America
Burkes Speech On Conciliation With America Author:Edmund Burke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. References to passages in Burke's other writings are to the twelve-volume edition of the Works (abbreviation W.), Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 18... more »94 ; and to the four volumes of the Correspondence (C.), Rivington, London, 1844. Both sets of books, especially the first, are desirable for the reference library of any school where Burke is studied. References to Dodsley's Annual Register are marked A.R.; thost- to the Parliamentary History, London, 1806-1820, P.ff., and unless otherwise noted are to volume XVIII; those to the Dictionary of National Biography, D. N. B. References to Bancroft are to the History of the United States, six volumes, Apple- ton, New York, 1888; to Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Century, eight volumes, Appleton, New York, 1878-1890; to Green, History of the English People, four vol. umes, Harper, New York, 1880 ; to Journals of the American Congress, the edition published at Washington, 1823. References to volumes are in capital Roman numerals ; to chapters or similar subdivisions, in small Roman. 3 i. Sir, that notwithstanding the austerity of the Chair. In the House of Commons and similar bodies speeches are nominally addressed, not to the members, but to the presiding officer, called the Speaker, the Chairman, or often the Chair. Instances of this form of address are found in the following passages : 10 27-29 and 28 17. The Speaker at this time was Sir Fletcher Norton, who held the office from 1770 to 1780. Anyone intereste in his career may study it in the Dictionary of National Biography. He is bitterly attacked in letter xxxix of Junius. The phrase austerity of the Chair refers to the fact that in impartially preserving order the Speaker is necessarily austere and sometimes even severe. 3 7. event. Result, my motion. The motion m...« less