Edmund Burke and His World"Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia. |
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Alice P. Miller. Ned's father would never have sent him to live with Catholics had there been the slightest likelihood that they would try to convert the boy to their own faith . Ned's father wanted his sons to rise in the world . As ...
Alice P. Miller. Ned's father would never have sent him to live with Catholics had there been the slightest likelihood that they would try to convert the boy to their own faith . Ned's father wanted his sons to rise in the world . As ...
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... father was not pleased with the news . He didn't want Ned to live away from home . The cash value of the scholarship wasn't important . Ned's father could afford to pay his son's college expenses , even though he kept grumbling about ...
... father was not pleased with the news . He didn't want Ned to live away from home . The cash value of the scholarship wasn't important . Ned's father could afford to pay his son's college expenses , even though he kept grumbling about ...
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... father , a Roman Catholic . Nugent's marriage , like that of Burke's parents , could have been a union between a Catholic and a Protestant . If so , Jane would have been raised in her mother's religion . No record has been found of the ...
... father , a Roman Catholic . Nugent's marriage , like that of Burke's parents , could have been a union between a Catholic and a Protestant . If so , Jane would have been raised in her mother's religion . No record has been found of the ...
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The First Years 17291744 | 1 |
Dublin Years 17441750 | 11 |
Irish Greenhorn in England 1750 | 23 |
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