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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Edmund Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burke was Irish, born in Dublin in 1729.
		Burke soon proved to be one of the main characters in the constitutional controversy in Britain under George III, who at the time was trying to establish more actual power for the crown.
		Burke responded to these affairs in his pamphlet Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), in which he argued that although George's actions were legal in the sense that they were not against the letter of the constitution, they were all the more against it in spirit.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/eburke/burke.htm (434 words)

	Biographies: The Political Philosopher, Edmund Burke (1729-97).
		Burke was the son of a Dublin attorney.
		Burke knew, that, what was necessary, was to sell his thoughts to the people (and thus to the parliamentarians); and, to do so in a practical manner.
		Burke's view is to be compared to that of Goethe's: that a state of tranquility, as desirable as it is, is one that is not achievable; man's lot in life, according to Goethe, was to be in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction, and, he is to spend it endlessly striving.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Burke.htm (3857 words)

	Burke, Edmund. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burke was a member of Samuel Johnson’s intimate circle.
		Burke’s political career began in 1765 when he became private secretary to the marquess of Rockingham, then prime minister, and formed a lifelong friendship with that leader.
		Burke left, in his many and diverse writings, a monumental construction of British political thought that had far-reaching influence in England, America, and France for many years.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/Burke-Ed.html (619 words)

	Edmund Burke - MSN Encarta
		Burke was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College.
		Burke took a deep interest in India and advocated a reversal of the British policy that allowed the East India Company to exploit the population of that country.
		Burke retired from Parliament in 1794, after a career remarkable for its laborious, earnest, and brilliant discharge of duties.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761555474 (393 words)

	Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
		Edmund Burke was brought up as an Anglican in order that he would not be limited by the Williamite Penal Laws against Catholics.
		As Rockingham's private secretary, Burke became privy to the affairs of the inner circle of Rockingham Whigs and was employed to articulate the ideas of the party.
		Burke's indignation centred on Warren Hastings, governor-general of Bengal from 1772 to 1785 and it was at Burke's instigation that Hastings was impeached in 1787.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/people/burke.htm (1322 words)

	SEP: Edmund Burke
		Burke was born at Dublin in Ireland, then part of the British Empire, the son of a prosperous attorney, and, after an early education at home, became a boarder at the school run by Abraham Shackleton, a Quaker from Yorkshire, at Ballitore in the Blackwater Valley.
		Burke retained all his life a sense of the responsibility of the educated, rich and powerful to improve the lot of those whom they directed; a sense that existing arrangements were valuable insofar as they were the necessary preconditions for improvement; and a strong sense of the importance of educated people as agents for change.
		Burke himself, however much he might try to hide the logic of his thought under the rich foliage of words generated by his skill with words — he is perhaps the only classic of political thought in the English language who is also a literary classic — was a philosophical thinker.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/burke (10623 words)

	Edmund Burke
		Burke was born in Dublin, probably on 1 January 1729.
		Burke's best-known work is Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), in which he foresaw the dangers which events in France posed to the ordered liberty of England.
		Burke retired from parliament in 1794 and died at Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, on 9 July 1797.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/writers/eburke.shtm (384 words)

	Edmund Burke
		Although reared in the Enlightenment era, Burke was a severe critic of rationalist theories of natural law and social contract.
		Burke was trained as a lawyer at Trinity College, Dublin and thereafter moved to London.
		Burke was himself elected to the House of Commons in 1765.
	www.economyprofessor.com /theorists/edmundburke.php (583 words)

	Burke: Select Works of Edmund Burke, Vol. 3, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Front Matter: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Like Burke, these men served the cause of general liberty and good government with a firm and genuine devotion: like him, they believed that cause to be disgraced and profaned by the crimes committed by the French government in its name.
		Burke's idea of a war for the old régime, steadfastly and sternly waged until the old régime should be restored, had gradually fallen into disrepute: and in the end it may be doubted whether any one believed in it except himself and Lord Fitzwilliam.
		Burke was ready with an answer: and his answer, based as it was on data which he thought sufficient, is a curious and valuable piece of statistics.
	www.econlib.org /library/LFBooks/Burke/brkSWv3c0.html (17561 words)

	Burke, Edmund - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BURKE, EDMUND [Burke, Edmund] 1729-97, British political writer and statesman, b.
		Burke was a member of Samuel Johnson 's intimate circle.
		Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and the subject of Eurocentrism.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-burke-e1d.html (777 words)

	The Edmund Burke Foundation
		The conservative Edmund Burke Stichting ("Foundation"), founded in December of 2000, aims to conserve the virtuous elements of Dutch society, and to restore those virtuous elements that have been lost.
		Because the Edmund Burke Foundation wants to be and remain free and independent, we do not accept any government subsidies, and so we are completely dependent on the contributions and donations of private citizens, other foundations and companies- of people and organizations, in short, that are convinced of the necessity to invest in ideas.
		The Burke Foundation organizes summer- and winter-schools, one-day conferences and master classes, where talented students are taught the foundations, appearances and practical translation of conservatism.
	www.burkestichting.nl /en/index.html (1192 words)

	Edmund Burke, Anarchist by Murray N. Rothbard
		Burke begins the Vindication by establishing the aim of his inquiry: to investigate with the light of truth the general nature of political institutions or "political society." He rejects at the outset the typically conservative reluctance to tamper with prevalent beliefs and ancient traditions.
		And Burke wittily deduces that Hobbes’ appalling view of mankind in the state of nature was derived, not from Hobbes’ observations of ordinary human action, but from his study of the actions of men when banded together into states.
		Burke’s elaborate efforts: to shield his identity from the public, to give the impression that this was a posthumous work of Bolingbroke’s, hint at a different explanation.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard11.html (2454 words)

	Burke Bio: The Online Library of Liberty
		Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is primarily remembered for Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
		Burke's analysis of the merits of the English Constitution and the demerits of the French Revolution is often seen as laying the foundations of modern conservatism.
		Burke was a consistent doubter of the merits of democracy.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Intros/Burke.php (657 words)

	Reflections: The Newsletter of the Edmund Burke Society
		Because Edmund was somewhat sickly as a child he was sent to spend some years with his mother’s Catholic relatives in the healthier air of the Cork countryside.
		Burke can be faulted for identifying the survival of Christianity too closely with the preservation of a particular social and political order, but not for making religion a mere instrument of politics.
		Burke is widely known as the teacher of expediency in politics and of the variability of political judgment according to circumstances.
	www.kirkcenter.org /burke/reflections/ref-4-1-feature.html (802 words)

	Edmond Burke
		Edmund Burke, born in Dublin in 1729, was the son of an attorney, Richard Burke.
		Burke worked to temper the actions of Parliament and to avert conflict with the colonies but was ultimately unable to do so.
		Burke was also active in reform of the terrible abuses perpetrated against the people of India by the British overlords.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/burke.htm (363 words)

	Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Edmund Burke, was born in Dublin, January 12, educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College, Dublin.
		The best of Burke's writings and speeches belong to this period, and may be described as a defense of sound constitutional statesmanship against prevailing abuse and misgovernment.
		Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) was read all over Europe and encouraged its rulers to resist, but his opposition to it cost him the support of his fellow Whigs, notably that of Fox.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/burke.html (538 words)

	Edmund Burke; a short biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born in Dublin, Edmund Burke was educated at Trinity College there, and studied law at the Middle Temple in London.
		Burke is remembered today as an intellectual who distrusted reason, and as a political theorist who condemned theory.
		Burke's fundamental ideas, his learning and capacious mind, and his mastery of a balanced, incisive style are well illustrated in his 'apologia pro vita sua', the "Letter to a Noble Lord".
	www.ourcivilisation.com /burke.htm (225 words)

	BBC - History - Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
		Burke pressed for parliamentary control of royal patronage and expenditure, in 1782 becoming closely involved with an act regulating the civil list paid by parliament to the crown.
		He believed that government should be a co-operative relationship between rulers and subjects and that, while the past was important, a willingness to adapt to the inevitability of change could - hopefully - reaffirm traditional values under new circumstances.
		The book provoked a huge response, including Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. Burke emphasised the dangers of mob rule, fearing that the Revolution's foggy fervour was destroying French society and appealed to the English virtues of continuity, tradition, rank and property.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/burke_edmund.shtml (382 words)

	Edmund Burke
		Like David Hume, Burke believed that political and social organization evolved organically over history from a variety of political, cultural and social circumstances.
		But his greatest influence was on social commentators like Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, who invoked Burke's arguments to condemn the destructive rise of capitalist industrialism.
		Edmund Burke is famously celebrated in William Butler Yeats's poem "The Seven Sages".
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/burke.htm (521 words)

	Edmund Burke's On the Sublime
		In addition to the emphasis which he places on terror, Burke is important because he explained the opposition of beauty and sublimity by a physiological theory.
		According to Burke, the pleasure of beauty has a relaxing effect on the fibers of the body, whereas sublimity, in contrast, tightens these fibers.
		Burke's use of this physiological theory of beauty and sublimity makes him the first English writer to offer a purely aesthetic explanation of these effects; that is, Burke was the first to explain beauty and sublimity purely in terms of the process of perception and its effect upon the perceiver.
	www.victorianweb.org /philosophy/sublime/burke.html (279 words)

	Edmund Burke (1729-1797) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born, raised, and educated in Ireland, Edmund Burke was one of the most well-known British statesmen and political philosophers of the eighteenth century.
		Burke is often remembered for his vehement opposition to the French Revolution, presented in his Reflections on the Revolution in France.
		Burke never separated religion and liberty; he maintained that liberty is only possible because it is part of the eternal and transcendent moral order.
	www.acton.org /publicat/randl/liberal.php?id=223 (421 words)

	Edmund Burke
		Marxists took particular offence at Burke's critique of egalitarianism, perhaps realising the radical threat which this presented to their own vision of a future society.
		As a Christian, Burke acknowledged a certain moral equality of mankind "that is to be found by virtue in all conditions".
		In Part II of `Edmund Burke's Legacy' the focus will be on other pertinent aspects of Burke's thought.
	www.bigeye.com /burke1.htm (1429 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Edmund Burke: On Taste
		Edmund Burke was born in Dublin in January, 1729, the son of an attorney.
		American affairs continued to engage the attention of Parliament, and throughout the struggle with the colonies Burke's voice was constantly raised on behalf of a policy of conciliation.
		Though Hastings was acquitted, Burke's fervid indignation in supporting the impeachment, and the impeachment itself, were indications of the growth of the sense of responsibility for the humane treatment of subject peoples.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1756burke-taste.html (3036 words)

	Amazon.com: The Portable Edmund Burke (The Viking Portable Library): Books: Edmund Burke,Isaac Kramnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies.
		The Portable Edmund Burke is the fullest one-volume survey of Burke's thought, with sections devoted to his writings on history and culture, politics and society, the American Revolution, Ireland, colonialism and India, and the French Revolution.
		So unlike `On Empire, Liberty, and Reform,' which is chronological, the portable Edmund Burke instead tackles Burke under the themes of America, Ireland, India, and the French Revolution, and a couple other sub-themes, with invaluable commentary.
	www.amazon.com /Portable-Edmund-Burke-Viking-Library/dp/0140267603 (1029 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burke, Dennis — of Berkley, Oakland County, Mich. Socialist.
		Burke, Peter A. — of Reno, Washoe County, Nev. Democrat.
		Burke, William Joseph (1862-1925) — also known as William J. Burke — of Pennsylvania.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/burke.html (1630 words)

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