Edmund Burkein a sentence
- After I'd been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, he suggested I write an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers.† (source)
- Edmund Burke.† (source)
- Even Edmund Burke in his celebrated speech had referred repeatedly to "our" colonies.† (source)
- —Edmund Burke's eulogy of Charles James Fox for his attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company — House of Commons, December 1, 1783.† (source)
- Edmund Burke famously said, "Manners are of more importance than laws."
- Were not the likes of Edmund Burke speaking out in Parliament for American rights, it was said.† (source)
- BETWEEN THEM, Edmund Burke and young Charles James Fox filled the next several hours.† (source)
- Adams, who like Edmund Burke had predicted dictatorship as the inevitable outcome for the revolution, wisely kept silent.† (source)
- Edmund Burke, Charles Fox, and others in Parliament opposed to the war were as downcast as prominent Tories were jubilant.† (source)
- In furious response to Edmund Burke's book Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine, who was then in England, had produced a pamphlet, The Rights of Man, that attacked Burke and set forth an impassioned defense of human rights, liberties, and equality.† (source)
- In London, meanwhile, the fiery Irish-born statesman Edmund Burke, who had once been the American Revolution's strongest friend in Parliament, declared in a speech that the French were proving themselves the ablest architects of ruin who ever existed.† (source)
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- In the House of Commons, Colonel Isaac Barre, Lord Cavendish, and Edmund Burke spoke severely against the administration, as Lord North and Lord Germain defended the management of the war.† (source)
- But in striking contrast, several of the most powerful speakers in Parliament, like the flamboyant Lord Mayor of London, John Wilkes, and the leading Whig intellectual, Edmund Burke, had voiced ardent support for and admiration of the Americans.† (source)
- If Edmund Burke had failed to provide a memorable line for the night's efforts, Fox did at once : Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost—he has lost a whole continent.† (source)
- Our oath of office is administered by the Vice President, not by the Governors of our respective states; and we come to Washington, to paraphrase Edmund Burke, not as hostile ambassadors or special pleaders for our state or section, in opposition to advocates and agents of other areas, but as members of the deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest.† (source)
- Tom Paine has triumphed over Edmund Burke; and the swine are now courted electors.† (source)
- —EDMUND BURKE'S REFERENCE IN PARLIAMENT TO THE NANTUCKET WHALE-FISHERY.† (source)
- Who, but Edmund Burke!† (source)
- —EDMUND BURKE.† (source)
- Why not bring in Henry Grattan and Flood and Demosthenes and Edmund Burke?† (source)
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