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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.
In the era after the Revolutionary Generation, the Whig Party had an approach that resembled Burkean conservatism, [definition needed] [relevant?] although Whigs rarely cited Burke. Whig statesmen led the charge for tradition and custom against the prevailing democratic ethos of the Jacksonian Era.
The Crown and Anchor public house (right) The King of Clubs was a famous Whig conversation club, founded in 1798. [1] In contrast to its mainly Tory forerunner The Club (established by Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds), it was a predominantly Whig fraternity of some of the most brilliant minds of the day.
With the mass-resignation from the Whig Club of Burke and other conservative Whig MPs, Fitzwilliam wrote to Lady Rockingham on 28 February 1793 and spoke of the Whig party split into three factions: those who wholeheartedly support the Revolution; those who wholeheartedly condemn it, support the government and wish for a war to destroy it; and ...
[4] [6] The statue they chose of Burke is a cast of the 1894 statue of Edmund Burke in Bristol, England. Sculpted by James Havard Thomas, the idea behind installation of the statue was to further strengthen the bonds between the two countries after working together during World War I. One way to do this was the installation of busts and statues ...
Whig [1] 1768: The Viscount Downe: 1774: Edmund Burke [b] Rockinghamite Whig [1] 1775 by-election William Weddell: Whig [1] 1780 by-election Edmund Burke: Whig [1] April 1784: Sir Thomas Gascoigne: Whig [1] Aug 1784 by-election William Weddell: Whig [1] 1792 by-election Hon. George Damer [c] Whig: 1794 by-election Richard Burke (died 1794) Whig ...
A profound critique of contemporary mass society, and a vivid and poetic image – not a program, an image – of how that society might better itself. […] in important respects, the twentieth century's own version of [Edmund Burke's] Reflections on the Revolution in France. […] Kirk was an artist, a visionary, almost a prophet. [5]