Author:Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke
(1729–1797)

Edmund Burke

Works

• A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
• An Account of the European Settlements in America (1757), with William Burke
  • "Need of Relieving Georgia", extract edited by Albert Bushnell Hart in American History Told by Contemporaries (1897)
• A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
  • "On Taste"
  • "On the Sublime and Beautiful"
• Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
• An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
• Thoughts on French Affairs (1791)
• A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)
• Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796)
• Letters on the Trade of Ireland, the Penal Laws
• Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe
• Letters, speeches and tracts on Irish affairs (1881) edited by Matthew Arnold (transcription project)

Speeches

• "Speech at his Arrival at Bristol" (1774)
• "Speech to the Electors of Bristol" (1774)
• "On Conciliation with America" (1775)
  • "On Conciliation with America"
  • "On Conciliation with America" in The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6
• "Address to the British Colonists in North America" (1777)
• "Principles in Politics" (1780) in The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6
• "At the Trial of Warren Hastings" (1788) in The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6

Works about Burke

• "Burke, Edmund (statesman)," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Burke, Edmund," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Burke, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• "Burke, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Burke, Edmund," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Burke, Edmund," in A Compendium of Irish Biography (pp. 43−49), by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878)
• "Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Burke, Edmund," in Dictionary of Indian Biography (pp. 61−62), by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906)