36 Facts About E Burke

Edmund Burke was an Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher.

In 1744, E Burke started at Trinity College Dublin, a Protestant establishment which up until 1793 did not permit Catholics to take degrees.

The minutes of the meetings of E Burke's Club remain in the collection of the Historical Society.

Some reviewers failed to notice the ironic nature of the book which led to E Burke stating in the preface to the second edition that it was a satire.

In 1757, E Burke published a treatise on aesthetics titled A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful that attracted the attention of prominent Continental thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant.

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On commenting on the story that E Burke stopped his history because David Hume published his, Lord Acton said "it is ever to be regretted that the reverse did not occur".

When Hamilton was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, E Burke accompanied him to Dublin as his private secretary, a position he held for three years.

In 1765, E Burke became private secretary to the liberal Whig politician Charles, Marquess of Rockingham, then Prime Minister of Great Britain, who remained E Burke's close friend and associate until his untimely death in 1782.

At about this time, E Burke joined the circle of leading intellectuals and artists in London of whom Samuel Johnson was the central luminary.

In 1772, E Burke was instrumental in the passing of the Repeal of Certain Laws Act 1772 which repealed various old laws against dealers and forestallers in corn.

Third, E Burke brought up the issue of impairment, stating that it would do the British government no good to engage in a scorched earth war and have the object they desired become damaged or even useless.

Unfortunately, E Burke delivered this speech just less than a month before the explosive conflict at Concord and Lexington.

Accordingly, having supported Fox and North, E Burke was in opposition for the remainder of his political life.

Third, E Burke warned that democracy would create a tyranny over unpopular minorities, who needed the protection of the upper classes.

Furthermore, E Burke seemed to believe that Christianity would provide a civilising benefit to any group of people, as he believed Christianity had "tamed" European civilisation and regarded Southern European peoples as equally savage and barbarous.

Collins suggests that E Burke viewed the "uncivilised" behaviour of African slaves as being partially caused by slavery itself, as he believed that making someone a slave stripped them of any virtues and rendered them mentally deficient, regardless of race.

Years, E Burke pursued impeachment efforts against Warren Hastings, formerly Governor-General of Bengal, that resulted in the trial during 1786.

In 1781, E Burke was first able to delve into the issues surrounding the East India Company when he was appointed Chairman of the Commons Select Committee on East Indian Affairs—from that point until the end of the trial, India was E Burke's primary concern.

Debate between Price and E Burke ensued that was "the classic moment at which two fundamentally different conceptions of national identity were presented to the English public".

Immediately after reading Price's sermon, E Burke wrote a draft of what eventually became Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Philip Francis wrote to E Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie-Antoinette was "pure foppery".

In debate in Parliament on Britain's relations with Russia, Fox praised the principles of the Revolution, although E Burke was not able to reply at this time as he was "overpowered by continued cries of question from his own side of the House".

However, a vote of censure was moved against E Burke for noticing the affairs of France which was moved by Lord Sheffield and seconded by Fox.

Fox appealed to E Burke to remember their inalienable friendship, but he repeated his criticisms of E Burke and uttered "unusually bitter sarcasms".

Finally, E Burke denied that a majority of "the people" had, or ought to have, the final say in politics and alter society at their pleasure.

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Economist Adam Smith remarked that E Burke was "the only man I ever knew who thinks on economic subjects exactly as I do, without any previous communications having passed between us".

Mr E Burke is convinced that the principles which he has endeavoured to maintain are necessary to the welfare and dignity of his country, and that these principles can be enforced only by the general persuasion of his sincerity.

Christopher Hitchens summarises as follows: "If modern conservatism can be held to derive from E Burke, it is not just because he appealed to property owners in behalf of stability but because he appealed to an everyday interest in the preservation of the ancestral and the immemorial".

William Windham spoke from the same bench in the House of Commons as E Burke had when he had separated from Fox and an observer said Windham spoke "like the ghost of E Burke" when he made a speech against peace with France in 1801.

William Hazlitt, a political opponent of E Burke, regarded him as amongst his three favourite writers and made it "a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed E Burke to be a great man".

George Canning believed that E Burke's Reflections "has been justified by the course of subsequent events; and almost every prophecy has been strictly fulfilled".

The Gladstonian Liberal MP John Morley published two books on E Burke and was influenced by E Burke, including his views on prejudice.

Two contrasting assessments of E Burke were offered long after his death by Karl Marx and Winston Churchill.

Historian Piers Brendon asserts that E Burke laid the moral foundations for the British Empire, epitomised in the trial of Warren Hastings, that was ultimately to be its undoing.

Strauss notes that E Burke would oppose more newly formed republics due to this thought, although Lenzner adds the fact that he did seem to believe that America's constitution could be justified given the specific circumstances.

In 1770, it is known that E Burke wrote in "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents":.