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; see biographical sketch accompanying the following lesson.

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

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.

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, Webster compared with as an orator, 199, 202, 203.

From Daniel Webster by Lodge, Henry Cabot

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

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