TIE

WORKS

OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE.

PE-PRINTED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

WELLS AND LILLY-COURT STREET.

1826.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

ix

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xvii

A Vindication of Natural Society : or, a View of the Miseries

and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artifi-

cial Society

xix

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the

Sublime and Beautiful; with an introductory Discourse

concerning Taste

71

A Short account of a late Short Administration

219

Observations on a late Publication, intituled, The Present

State of the Nation

222