Burke, Edmund

Burke, Edmund R. Creatine What You Need to Know. New York Avery Penguin Putnam, 1999. 

Burke, Edmund. An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful. Cassell Company Ltd, London. 1887. 

On February 21, 1809, Hatchett became a member of the famous Literary Club which had been founded in 1764 by Dr. Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds (51). As treasurer of the club, Hatchett prepared a brief historical account of it, which appears in Boswell s Life of Johnson (25). The club also included, among others, Edmund Burke, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Charles Blagden, Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. W. H. Wollaston, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Dr. Thomas Young. 

Conservative sentiment in England was also seriously disturbed, at this time, by the success of the American Revolution, and still more by the development of democratic spirit and the antichurch sentiment excited by the rise and progress of the French Revolution. As Priestley had favored the cause of the American colonists, so he was sympathetic with the ideals which dominated the rise and earlier development of the French revolutionary movement. The government party in England was aroused against Priestley, especially by his caustic reply to Edmund Burke s attack on the French Revolution in 1790. As Burke had been an outspoken advocate of the cause of the American colonists before the American Revolution, Priestley,... 

That a conscious association between the rise of modern science and the dissolution of traditional society extended into the eighteenth century is evident in conservative reaction to the Enlightenment and the Chemical Revolution. Thus the arch-reactionary John Robison linked Lavoisier s chemistry, the metric system and the Revolutionary calendar to the obliteration of the past inherent in the unrestrained advocacy of rational analysis . More perspicaciously, Edmund Burke excoriated Enlightenment chemistry in the following terms ... 

Burke, E. The Philosophy of Edmund Burke A Selection from His Speeches and Writings. Edited with an Introduction by Louis I. Bredvold and Ralph G. Ross. Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press, 1961. 

About 1750 John Taylor introduced the process into Birmingham where the material was used for making small articles, such as buttons, buckles and trinkets of all kinds that comprised the toy trade of the city, the latter being described by Edmund Burke (1730 to 1797) as the toy-shop of Europe . 

Edmund Burke s Reflections on the Revolution in France was published in 1790. 

Philosophers from Edmund Burke and Kant to Jean-Fran ois Lyotard and Slavoj Zizek define the sublime in terms of the modern subject . For them, the sublime is a form of intellectual experience, most often produced when the mind witnesses an awe-inspiring object in nature (such as a cragged mountain or a tempestuous ocean), to create horror and wonder, and thereby to chart the borderland between consciousness and the ineffable Sublimity... resides in the human capacity to think beyond the bounds of the given . As a literary critic, however, Longinus defines the sublime in terms of the classical author, and thus he sees the sublime as a textual representation of this philosophical borderland. The sublime is not strictly cognitive but stylistic, the product not only of the mind but also of rhetoric. 

Paine, Thomas (1737-1809), English-born American author, inventor, and revolutionary. He emigrated to America in 1774, on the eve of the American Revolution. Early in 1776 Paine published Common Sense, a rousing patriotic pamphlet, and an equally spirited series. The Crisis. A later work. The Rights of Man (1791-2), directed against Edmund Burke s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), led to his indictment for treason in England. He fled to France, where he wrote The Age of Reason, which (fairly or not) sealed his reputation as an atheist and a Jacobin. Jefferson, who never ceased to defend his friend and ally, was similarly tarred by Federalist foes. 

Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775 Edmund Burke... 

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