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 * 1) "Like Goldsmith, though in a different sphere, Burke belongs both to the old order and the new." Discuss that statement.
 * 2) Burke and the Literary Club. (Boswell's Life of Johnson.)
 * 3) Lives of Burke and Goldsmith. Contrast.
 * 4) An interpretation of ten apothegms selected from the Speech on Conciliation.
 * 5) A study of figures in the Speech on Conciliation.
 * 6) A definition of the terms: "colloquialism" and "idiom." Instances of their use in the Speech on Conciliation.


 * 1) Burke's Life. John Morley. English Men of Letters Series.
 * 2) Burke. John Morley. An Historical Study.
 * 3) Burke. John Morley. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
 * 4) History of the English People. Green. Vol. IV., pp 193–271.
 * 5) History of Civilization in England. Buckle. Vol. I., pp. 326–338.
 * 6) The American Revolution. Fiske. Vol. I., Chaps. I., II.
 * 7) Life of Johnson. Boswell. (Use the Index)