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A note-book of Edmund Burke : Poems, characters, essays and other sketches in the hands of Edmund and William Burke now print. for the 1st time in their entirety (Reprint ed.). Cambridge: Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-52124706-1. Insole, Christopher; Dwan, David, eds. (2012). The Cambridge companion to Edmund Burke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
On his coming to Town for the Winter, as he generally does, he went to the Levee with the Duke of Portland, who went with Lord William to kiss hands on his going into the Guards—while Lord William was kissing hands, The King was talking to The Duke, but his Eyes were fixed on [Burke] who was standing in the Crowd, and when He said His say to ...
To make psychological observations, as Burke did in his treatise on the beautiful and the sublime, thus to assemble material for the systematic connection of empirical rules in the future without aiming to understand them, is probably the sole true duty of empirical psychology, which can hardly even aspire to rank as a philosophical science.
Although the Vindication is a satire aimed at the deism of Lord Bolingbroke, Burke confronted Bolingbroke not in the sphere of religion but in that of civil society and government, countering that his arguments against revealed religion could apply to all institutions. So close to Bolingbroke's style was the work that Burke's ironic intention ...
Title page from the second edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Men, the first to carry Wollstonecraft's name. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a political pamphlet, written by the 18th-century British writer and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, which ...
An Address, to the Hon. Edmund Burke. from the Swinish Multitude was a widely reviewed pamphlet by James Parkinson published in 1793 under his pseudonym "Old Hubert" in response and criticism to Edmund Burke's use of the phrase "swinish multitude" in his 1790 book Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Bob Burke, historian, author and lawyer, holds one of his recent books, "What a Ride: The Life of Hal Smith," on April 11. Oklahoma City attorney Bob Burke may know more about Oklahoma history ...
The Annual Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley.On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke (1729–97) to write and edit the material for The Annual Register, which was conceived as an annual publication which would review the history, politics and literature of the day.