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An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs is a book written by the Irish Whig MP and philosopher, Edmund Burke, published on 3 August 1791. Background. Edmund Burke's position in the Whig party during the parliamentary session of 1790–91 was awkward.
- United Kingdom
- 3 August 1791
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- Edmund Burke
In political philosophy: Burke. …Revolution in France (1790) and An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), he discerned in the doctrine of sovereignty of the people, in whose name the revolutionaries were destroying the old order, another and worse form of arbitrary power.
Burke's Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs was published on 3 August 1791. Burke made revisions in the second, third, and fourth impressions, all issued in 1791. The most significant changes involved reversing the order of the last two 'members' of the book ( Todd, p. 173).
In his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), he discerned in the doctrine of sovereignty of the people, in whose name the revolutionaries were destroying the old order, another and worse form of arbitrary power.… Read More. political pamphlets. In pamphlet.
An appeal from the new to the old Whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution....
Abstract. Edmund Burke (1729–1797) was born in Dublin, and after attending Trinity College there, proceeded to London to study law. Yet his early pursuits were largely literary (his Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful was a major statement of aesthetic theory), and he became editor of the Annual Register at ...
An appeal from the new to the old Whigs. by. Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Publication date. 1962. Topics. Whig Party (Great Britain) -- Early works to 1800. Publisher. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill.
