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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.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise (2nd edition 1759) on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories.
Burke communicated his letter to Mr. Burke, and by his desire has to inform Mr. Fox that it has cost Mr. Burke the most heart-felt pain to obey the stern voice of his duty in rending asunder a long friendship, but that he deemed this sacrifice necessary; that his principles continue the same; and that in whatever of life may yet remain to him ...
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 ...
28 (first edition) 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 .
Burke wrote in the third person, and anonymously, though he made no secret that he was the author. The book bearing no author was a deliberate device which, together with being entitled an "appeal", was intended to have the effect of making the work look like an objective and impartial judgement between Burke and his opponents, rather than Burke presenting his own case. [7]
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 ...
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 ...