BIBLIOGRAPHY Lon of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolutions of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke." New and Correspondence." 8 vols., Rivington, 1852. Works." With Introduction and Notes by E. J. ted editions of the "Speech for Conciliation" by 1 Burke." By John Morley, in "Encyclopædia ica." Burke." By William Hunt, in "The Dictionary onal Biography," vol. VII. of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke." James Prior (in Bohn's Libraries). . By John Morley ("English Men of Letters" s on the Life, Writings, and Times of Edmund By J. B. Robertson. nder "LIFE." of Civilization in England." By Henry Thomas Vol. I., pp. 455-476. Burke. An Historical Study." By John Morley. of a Critic." By C. W. Dilke. Vol. II., pp. 309Burke from the Athenæum." of English Prose Literature." By William Minto. -460. and Romance and Other Essays.” By Henry Mac UND BURKE was born January 12, 1729, in olin. His father, a Protestant, was a lawyer in cumstances. His mother was a Catholic, and alEdmund was not reared in that faith, he preserved out his life a friendliness toward the Roman Of Burke's boyhood he himself never said much, e can be learned from other sources. In 1741 he t to a school at Ballitore, a village thirty miles blin. There, under the instruction of the Quaker Abraham Shackleton, the boy learned habits of - uprightness, and simplicity. What the teacher of him we do not know, but we know he had I do with building the character of the future n, and was always affectionately remembered by 13 Burke entered Trinity College, Dublin, from e received his bachelor's degree five years later. good many other people who have become great o be written about, Burke did not faithfully purcademic studies. This was due, not to lack of inout to tremendous enthusiasms, which in their ss might well seem astonishing to present-day oys sixteen or eighteen years of age. In a letter rd Shackleton son of the schoolmaster he sa , and along the river. The important thing is s thinking, and probably storing his mind with of his beloved Ireland, which always was dear father intended the son to follow the profesv, and to that end entered his name at the Mide, London. In 1750 he went to London to beading of law. From the knowledge of the subhe afterward exhibited he seems to have ach for the intended profession. He was never he bar, however, and within six years he gave e proof that his chief interest lay in another by publishing two books that had nothing to egal subjects. One was a clever imitation of tic Bolingbroke, called "A Vindication of ociety," the other an essay, "A Philosophical to the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and ese books Burke definitely began his career in He had abandoned the law, and his father nsequence broken with him and stopped his As if to try to the utmost the value of his at this critical period married a Miss Nugent, of his physician. In her he found perfect I which boon to a man of his zealous earnestwell have been worth the hazard. The first of oks mentioned gives indication of the developis genius in writing, and of certain ideas that amental in his later views. The "Vindication" re in imitation of the man most noted at that s style. Burke so mastered the model that the ublic and critics alike took it to be Bolingn; and it is certain that the book left a perark on Burke's style. As to subject matter, e first gave to the public an indication of his I unalterable adherence to established order, He w was doi he bega a sort of thirty y ploy of years. ever, as selfish p his litera Burke political ministry to Lord he was a month doubly i change gave up threw hi George t land was ber, Wil refused ments or embodyin "Thought "one of t The ca fighting, was inde American spoke for ica he di victory a |