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

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

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Burke, Edmund, on conciliation, 456.

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

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Burke, Edmund, influence of his oratory, i.

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