Burke, Edmund

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1. An Irish political leader and author of the eighteenth century who spent his career in England. A member of the British Parliament and an exceptional speaker, he sympathized with the American Revolutionary War as a defense of existing rights of citizens. He opposed the French Revolution, however, saying that it was a complete and unjustified break with tradition. (See Thomas Paine.)

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Burke, Edmund

Burke, Edmund, his sympathy with the Americans, 2; could not see the need for parliamentary reform, 6; his invective against Shelburne, 17; on the slave-trade, 72.

From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John

Burke, Edmund; see biographical sketch accompanying the following lesson.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

Burke, Edmund, quoted by Gasquet on fall of monasteries, 312.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley

Burke, Edmund, his defence of his political principles. —the design of, in his greatest work.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund

Burke, Edmund, 112, 113; his words concerning Beauclerk's widow, 115; his burial-place, 145.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.