Burke, Edmund

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

Burke, Edmund, review of the correspondence of, 745.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

Burke, Edmund, compliment to Charles Fox, xxxviii; speeches of, criticised, lii; bill for economical reform, 469.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

Burke, Edmund, in Gillray's caricatures, 154; quoted, upon the French Revolution, 163; caricature, 164.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Burke, Edmund, 209; on value of House of Commons, 227.

From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Wilson, Woodrow

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