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1. A discourse on the love of our country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the meeting-lionse in theOld Jewry, to the Society for coramemorating the Révolution in Great Britain, with an appendix, containing the report of the committee of the Society, an account of the population of France and the déclaration of rights by the National Assembly of France, by Hichard Price, D.D., LL.l)., F.H.S., and fellow of the American Philosophical Societies at Philadelphia and Boston, London, 1789. — V., sur ce discours, une lettre intéressante de Burke. (Corr. vol. III, pp. 395-6).

2. Burke avait déjà, une première fois, dénoncé la Révolution, dans un discours parlementaire, 9 février 1790 : Speech on the Anny Estimâtes (Works, vol. V, p. 3sqq.). On trouvera des exposés delà philosophie politique de Burke dans le Burke de John Morley, dans le volume récent de 31. Graham, English PolUical Philosophy (pp. 88-173. — Rapprochements avec Benlham, pp. 106, 145, 155), et surtout chez Lecky, llist. of Enffland, etc., vol. V, pp. 463 sqq.

3. Works, vol. V, p. 67 : Those exploded fana tics of slavery, who formcrly maintained, what I believe no créature now maintains, « that the crown is heldby divine, hereditary, and indefeasible right». — p. 71 : Kings, in one sensé, are undonbtedly the servants of the people, because their |>o\ver lias no other rational end than that of the gênerai advantage. — Il ne

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veut cependant pas donner tout à fait raison sur ce point à Price, qui avait déclaré que les rois étaient, par définition, les serviteurs du peuple, et nie qu'ils puissent être appelés de ce nom « in the ordinary sensc (by our constitution, at least) » : c'est le roi, non le peuple, qui est, constitutionnellement, le souverain.

\ . Speech on A merican Taxation , 19 avril 1774 ( Works, vol. 1 1 , pp. 375-376)

5. Works, vol. X, pp. 92-108 : Speech on the Reform of Parliament.

6. Works, vol. VI, p. 207 : An Appeal from the new to the old whigs.

7. Reflétions (Works, vol. V, p. 122). Cf. vol. III, p. 186 : letter to the sheriffs of Bristol (1777) : I was persuaded that government was a practical thing, inade for the happiness of mankind, and not to furnisli out a spectacle of uniformity, to gratify the schemes of visionary politics.

8. Ibitl., pp. 119-120 : Far aui I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from wïthholding in praetice (if I wcre of power to give or to wilhhold) the rettl rights of mon... Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, lie has a right to do for himself; and lie has a right to a fair portion of ail which society, with ail ils combinations of skill and foire, can do in liis faveur... But... as to the share of power, authority, and direction, which each individual ought to hâve in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society : for I hâve in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.

9. IbUL, pp. 122-123 : The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men, each to govern himself, and sufter any artiûcial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organisation of government becomes a considération of convenience.