All 12 volumes of Burke's works, from the edition first published in 1887, plus a biography of Burke by John Morley. According to Wikipedia: "Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and fo...

I am well aware that to try to write Mr. Gladstone's life at all—the life of a man who held an imposing place in many high national transactions, whose character and career may be regarded in such various lights, whose interests were so manifold, and whose years bridged so long a span of time—is a stroke of temerity. To try to write his life to-day, is to push temerity still further. The ashes of controversy, in which he was much concerned, are still hot; perspective, scale, relation, must...

All 12 volumes of Burke's works, from the edition first published in 1887, plus a biography of Burke by John Morley. According to Wikipedia: "Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and fo...

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his h...

Biography of Voltaire by John Morley.John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (1838 – 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Morley was a Trustee of the British Museum from 1894 to 1921, Honorary Professor of Ancient Literature at the Royal Academy of Arts, and member of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. He was Chancellor of the Victoria University of Manchester from 1908 until 1923, when he resigned. He was nominated for a Nobel prize in li...

A biography of Edmund Burke written by John Morley.Edmund Burke ( 1729 – 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.In the nineteenth century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals. Subsequently, in the twentieth century he became widely regarded as t...

Classic biography of the French philosophyer. According to Wikipedia: "Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 5 September 1857), better known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Strongly influenced by the Utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, Comte developed the positive philosophy in an attempt t...

The Complete Works of John MorleyJohn Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883.This collection includes the following titles:RousseauDiderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)Critical Miscellanies (Vol 1 of 3)Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3)Critical Miscellanies, Vol 3 of 3)The Lif...

This edition features• three complete books• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked IndexCONTENTSVOL. IBook I (1809-1831)Book II(1832-1846)Book III (1847-1852)Book IV (1853-1859)AppendixChronologyVOL. IIBook V. 1859-1868Book VI. 1869-1874AppendixFootnotesVOL. IIIBook VIII. 1880-1885Book IX. 1885-1886Book X. 1886-1892Chronology

Christianity originally and generically at once awoke and satisfied a spiritual craving for a higher, purer, less torn and fragmentary being, than is permitted to sons of men on the troubled and corrupt earth. It disclosed to them a gracious, benevolent, and all-powerful being, who would one day redress all wrongs and recompense all pain, and who asked no more from them meanwhile than that they should prove their love of him whom they had not seen, by love of their brothers whom they had s...

In "The Life of William Ewart Gladstone," John Morley offers a meticulous and biographical exploration of one of Britain's most towering figures, combining rich narrative with scholarly precision across three volumes. Morley employs a comprehensive literary style that intertwines political analysis with personal reflection, presenting Gladstone not just as a statesman but as a complex individual shaped by the tumultuous landscapes of 19th-century Britain. This work stands out in the genre ...

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (1838-1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.Initially a journalist in the North of England and then editor of the newly Liberal-leaning Pall Mall Gazette from 1880 to 1883, he was elected a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895; Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911; and Lord President ...