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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.
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]
Edmund Burke (/ b ɜːr k /; 12 January 1729 [2] – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.
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.
Nugent married a Miss Leake, and they had a son and daughter. [4] The wife was a Presbyterian; he himself a Catholic. Edmund Burke was his patient around 1750; and married his daughter Jane Mary, brought up a Catholic, early in 1757. Burke called his younger son Christopher, after his father-in-law. [2] [1]
Later users include Edmund Burke, who wrote in a 1790 letter that "The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny." [10] It was further popularised by John Stuart Mill, influenced by Tocqueville, in On Liberty (1859). Friedrich Nietzsche used the phrase in the first sequel to Human, All Too Human (1879). [11]
Burke is known as one of the greatest philosophers of his time. After working as a private secretary for William Gerard Hamilton followed by Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham , Burke was elected to the House of Commons where he would often give powerful speeches during his 30-year tenure.