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Edmund Burke

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmund Burke 1729-97, British political writer and statesman, b. Dublin, Ireland. Early Writings After graduating (1748) from Trinity College, Dublin, he began the study of law in London but abandoned it to devote himself to writing. His satirical Vindication of Natural Society (1756) attacked the political rationalism and religious skepticism of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) was a study in aesthetics. In 1759 he founded the Annual Register, a periodical to which he contributed... Read more
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke The British statesman Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a noted political theorist and philosophical...politics, and died the political oracle of conservative Europe. Edmund Burke's view of society was hierarchical and authoritarian, yet one... Read more
Burke, Edmund
Burke, Edmund (1729–97). Whig politician...conservative political philosopher. Burke was born in Ireland to a catholic...attention to writing. However, Burke's first love was politics and...with spellbinding oratory. Burke had an unrivalled gift for... Read more

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