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, 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, 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, xii, xiv, liii, lxvi, 145 n.,

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

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

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

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.