A Letter to a Noble Lord
by Edmund Burke
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1796
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 50 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendA Letter to a Noble LordLiberty Fund, 1999Included in volume 3 of Select Works of Edmund Burke, the standard inexpensive edition of his major writings.
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Burke's reply to the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, who had attacked in the House of Lords the pension the king had granted him on his retirement. He defends his public services, above all his economic reform of the royal household, and turns on the young duke, whose vast estates came from Henry VIII's grants, pointing out that the Jacobin principles Bedford professes would strip him first. Written in grief after his son's death, it is one of the great pieces of English invective.
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