Edmund Burke
historical figure · 3 works · 15 mentions · 22 anchored passages
Burke
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Statesman and writer identified as one of only three modern writers who foresaw the course of contemporary history, particularly regarding the American colonies and the French Revolution.
Burke assuredly studied the contest between England and her American Colonies with an insight, and therefore with a foresight, unknown to his generation.
This doctrine is congenial to democrats who at times have treated the claim to manhood suffrage as a natural right.
All the strongest reasons in favour of Catholic emancipation were laid before the English world by Burke between 1760 and 1797;
The Law of Intellectual Property
British orator and statesman cited as an example of a unique intellectual producer.
Who can suppose that the poems of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, or the orations of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Burke, would ever have seen the light, had not Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke themselves existed?
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Eighteenth-century statesman and writer, quoted for his claim that Magna Carta gave England the House of Commons.
Edmund Burke (Works, II.