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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It would have been difficult not to be a snob in a college setting in which social differences were sharply defined . As the son of a prosperous professional man , he just wouldn't have been likely to associate with a student as a poor ...
It would have been difficult not to be a snob in a college setting in which social differences were sharply defined . As the son of a prosperous professional man , he just wouldn't have been likely to associate with a student as a poor ...
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Too wealthy and arrogant to return to the social level from which they had sprung , too lacking in social graces to be accepted by the high - born , they belonged nowhere . Yet their wealth brought many advantages .
Too wealthy and arrogant to return to the social level from which they had sprung , too lacking in social graces to be accepted by the high - born , they belonged nowhere . Yet their wealth brought many advantages .
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Actually Burke had never approved of revolutionary tactics as a means of bringing about social improvement , not even during the American Revolution . He did not regard that war as a revolution anyway ; he considered it a civil war .
Actually Burke had never approved of revolutionary tactics as a means of bringing about social improvement , not even during the American Revolution . He did not regard that war as a revolution anyway ; he considered it a civil war .
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Contents
The First Years 17291744 | 1 |
Dublin Years 17441750 | 11 |
Irish Greenhorn in England 1750 | 23 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Edmund Burke and His World |
| Author | Alice P. Miller |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Devin-Adair Company, 1979 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0815954042, 9780815954040 |
| Length | 232 pages |
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