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Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

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Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher; served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. Mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution

Edmund Burke

Works

• A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
• An Account of the European Settlements in America (1757), with William Burke
  • "Need of Relieving Georgia", extract edited by Albert Bushnell Hart in American History Told by Contemporaries (1897)
• A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
  • "On Taste"
  • "On the Sublime and Beautiful"
• Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
• An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
• Thoughts on French Affairs (1791)
• A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)
• Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796)
• Letters on the Trade of Ireland, the Penal Laws
• Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe

Speeches

• "Speech at his Arrival at Bristol" (1774)
• "Speech to the Electors of Bristol" (1774)
• "On Conciliation with America" (1775)
  • "On Conciliation with America"
  • "On Conciliation with America" in The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6
• "Address to the British Colonists in North America" (1777)
• "Principles in Politics" (1780) in The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6
• "At the Trial of Warren Hastings" (1788) in The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6

Works about Burke

• "Burke, Edmund (statesman)," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Burke, Edmund," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• “Burke, Edmund” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1875–1889).
• "Burke, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Burke, Edmund," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Burke, Edmund," in A Compendium of Irish Biography (pp. 43−49), by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878)
• "Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Burke, Edmund," in Dictionary of Indian Biography (pp. 61−62), by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)