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An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

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.

Author

Edmund Burke

English

3 August 1791

United Kingdom

Letter to a Member of the National Assembly 

Letter to a Noble Lord 

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Burke wrote in the third person, and anonymously, though he made no secret that he was the author. The book bearing no author was a deliberate device which, together with being entitled an "appeal", was intended to have the effect of making the work look like an objective and impartial judgement between Burke and his opponents, rather than Burke presenting his own case.[7] Unlike in the Reflections, Burke's style is less flowery, less emotive and more plain speaking. He included long extracts from The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell (1710) and Paine's Rights of Man.

Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. Volume VI (Cambridge University Press, 1967).

F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke. Volume II: 1784–1797 (Clarendon Press, 2006).

Edmund Burke, The Works of Edmund Burke. Volume IV (1899).

John M. Robson (ed.), An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (The Library of Liberal Arts, 1962).