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Burke, Edmund

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1729–97, British political writer and statesman, b. Dublin, Ireland. After graduating (1748) from Trinity College, Dublin, he began the study of law in London but abandoned it to devote himself to writing. His satirical Vindication of Natural Society (1756) attacked the political rationalism and religious skepticism of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) was a study in aesthetics. In 1759 he founded the Annual Register , a periodical to which he contributed until 1788. Burke was a member of Samuel Johnson 's intimate circle. Burke's political career began in 1765 when he became private secretary to the marquess of Rockingham , then prime minister, and formed a lifelong friendship with that leader. He also entered Parliament in 1765 and there strove for a wiser treatment of the American colonies. In 1766 he spoke in favor of the repeal of the Stamp Act, although he also supported the…
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Edmund Burke
When in 1765 at the age of 36, he began his long career as a member of the British Parliament, Edmund Burke was already widely known for his intellectual ability as editor of the highly acclaimed journal the Annual Register and as the author of A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
One of the most eloquent orators and prose stylists of the 18th c., Burke took a progressive stand on many of the hotly contested issues of his day: the American Revolution, religious toleration, the abolition of slavery, the administration of India. To students of British literature, however, he is…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
Orator and political philosopher. He was born in Arran Quay, Dublin, on 12 January 1729, the son of a Protestant lawyer and a Catholic mother, Mary Nagle from Co. Cork, and spent some of his childhood among his mother's relatives. Educated at Abraham Shackleton's Quaker school in Ballitore, Co. …
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From Chambers Classic Speeches
Edmund Burke (1729-97) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He entered the Middle Temple, London in 1750, but abandoned law for literary work. His early works include Vindication of Natural Society (1756) and Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime…
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From Political Philosophy A-Z
Burke was an Irish-born theorist of conservatism and opponent of the French Revolution, MP, and a leading parliamentary orator. In his major work, Reflections on the Revolution in France , Burke outlines an organic conception of the state, advocacy of slow and piecemeal reform (if it takes place at…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Edmund Burke, an Irishman, was an active member of the British Parliament for thirty years between 1765 and 1794. He was a political thinker whose thought was expressed not in a single theory but in response to the issues that he encountered during his political career. He wrote across a large…
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Statesman and philosopher. Born in Ireland, Burke moved to England in 1750. In 1757, he published an important treatise on aesthetics, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. He entered Parliament in 1765 and became famous for his eloquent attacks on…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Reflections on the Revolution in France Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. Reflections on the…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. THE BIBLE ; Paul, 3:67. No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. BROWNE, Sir Thomas Religio Medici (1643). There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. …
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