Definition of Edmund Burke

1. Noun. British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797).


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Literary usage of Edmund Burke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Edmund Burke, —Folk Lore: Lotting the .. New Year in — Irish Superstition — Apparitions, Persons who see, born at Midnight—All Hallow Even —Four and Deuce ..."

2. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke by Hugh A. Garland (1851)
"With him Edmund Burke was the great master of political philosophy. ... Edmund Burke had not only defended the colonies, in the British Parliament, ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"This accusation was part of an attack made by the bishop on Edmund Burke, who in the draft of his reply speaks warmly of his kinsman's character, ..."

4. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"Edmund Burke. (1730—1797.) Edmund Burke—of whom Dr. Johnson said his "mind was a perennial stream," who was pronounced by Sir Archibald Alison to be " the ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"Edmund Burke. Between the year 1744 and the period of his decease in 1797. THE letters in this collection, commencing a century ago, at a period when Burke ..."

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