Burke's " Letter to a Member of the National Assembly ", published in February 1791, was a diatribe against Rousseau, whom he considered the paramount influence on the French Revolution ( his ad hominem attack did not really engage with Rousseau's political writings ).

Burke's political engagement is evident, for example, in the epigraph A Grammar of Motives in its epigraph, ad bellum purificandum -- toward the purification of ( the human spirit from ) war.

The political and social power of symbols was central to Burke's scholarship throughout his career.

Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's transformation of " traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism.

In Burke's political career, he vigorously defended constitutional limitation of the Crown's authority, denounced the religious persecution of Catholics in his native Ireland, voiced the grievances of Britain's American colonies, supported American Independence, and vigorously pursued impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of British India, for corruption and abuse of power.

In the twentieth century, Western conservatives applied Burke's anti-revolutionary Reflections to popular socialist revolutions, thus establishing Burke's iconic political value to conservatives and classical liberals.

Burke's career was revived with the July 23, 2002 release of Don't Give Up on Me on Fat Possum Records and produced by Joe Henry, where he sang songs written specifically for the album by various leading recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.

For the album Make Do With What You Got songs were contributed by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Robbie Robertson, Coco Montoya, Dr. John, and from the Rolling Stones, who had covered three of Burke's songs early in their career.

The movie was a great success, and revived Burke's career.

Among the landmarks of Burke's songwriting career were:

Burke's legal career was established in Iowa and Minnesota before he moved to the Dakota Territory.

Starting out by playing the season before commencing at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, Burke's career in schools representative rugby began in 1990 when he toured the United States and Ireland with the Australian Schoolboys.

Billie Burke's nomination was the only Best Actress Oscar nomination of her career.

During her early career, Satana appeared on television shows such as Burke's Law, The Greatest Show On Earth, Hawaiian Eye, and The Man From U. N. C. L. E .. She also appeared as a dancer in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

The pair were later dubbed The Knock-Out / Tap-Out Connection, in reference to Burke's amateur boxing career and Terkay's mixed martial arts background.

The Bray family appears to have moved to the Portsmouth area from the Isle of Wight, in contradiction to the very garbled accounts of their origins to be found in Burke's Colonial Gentry ( 1891 – 1895 ), volume 2, under " Bray of Adelaide ", and in the American Supplement ( 1939 ) to Burke's Landed Gentry ( 1937 edition ), now renamed Burke's American Family Records with British Ancestry, and found under " Bray " ( covering the career and descent of Professor William Crowell Bray ( 1879 – 1946 ), head of the Chemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, who belonged to the Canadian branch of the Bray family which had been established in Upper Canada in 1839 by William Bray, J. P., R. N.

At one sedition trial in the early 1790s, the Attorney – General tried to prohibit Thomas Cooper from publishing his response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, arguing that " although there was no exception to be taken to his pamphlet when in the hands of the upper classes, yet the government would not allow it to appear at a price which would insure its circulation among the people.

However, Burke's Peerage had listed the sisters as dead, apparently because their mother, Fenella ( the Queen Mother's sister-in-law ), " was ' extremely vague ' when it came to filling in forms and might not have completed the paperwork for the family entry correctly ".

Burke's entrepreneurial activities included cooking and selling barbecued chicken sandwiches backstage, and even demanding and operating the concessions at the Apollo Theatre when he performed there in 1966, which was very profitable for him but so enraged the owner Frank Schiffman that he was banned from performing at the Apollo Theater for life.

In 1984 Rounder Records released Soul Alive !, a recording of Burke's 1981 live performances at the Phoenix 1 Club in Washington D. C., that was produced by King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke, Burke's youngest son, who " was just fourteen years old when he put the Souls Alive album out for me.

Burke's fourth wife was Frances Sunday ( born 1951 ), whom he married in about 1970 ; she was married to him ( but separated ) when he died, and had three children with him: King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke ( born August 7, 1972 ), Queen Sunday Victoria Burke ( born February 24, 1974 ), and Queen Elizabeth Burke-Maynard ( born March 12, 1975 ).

The show changed premise in seasons six and seven, when Delta Burke's character of Suzanne moved to Japan and sold her part of the design business to her wealthy cousin Allison Sugarbaker ( Julia Duffy ).

Burke's Peerage was extended beyond the peerage in 1833, when the first of the companion series of volumes that became known as Burke's Landed Gentry, was published.

Family backgrounds of those of purely celebrity status were not added to Burke's until the 1930s, when the family had lost editorial control.

However, the new Washington State Museum continued to lack a permanent home for its collections until 1962, when the Burke's present building was constructed ( designed by James Chiarelli ).

) Griffin herself had said that when she heard Burke's version of the song, she almost did not feel worthy of singing it herself anymore.

This was further questioned when NSW attempted to poach footballer Andrew Johns from rival code league, despite Johns ' and Burke's similar ages.

Vicky believed that he had somehow survived when they could not locate Burke's body.

Fitzwilliam did not praise Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France in public when it was published on 1 November 1790, although Burke claimed on 29 November that Fitzwilliam had acclaimed it.

Fitzwilliam returned to his previous independence when the scheme for a " third party " collapsed and Laurence wrote to Fitzwilliam on 9 July ( the day of Burke's death ) that Burke had said on his deathbed: " Inform Lord Fitzwilliam from me that it is my dying advice and request to him, steadily to pursue that course in which he now is.

Burke's law firm had employed Joseph A. Martinez, a real estate tax appeal attorney, as a full-time partner since about 1977, when in 1981 Mayor Jane Byrne appointed Martinez to replace the resigning 31st Ward Alderman Chester Kuta.

The plot began when bookmaker, Martin Krugman told Henry Hill ( an associate of Jimmy Burke's ) about millions of dollars in untraceable money: American currency flown in once a month from monetary exchanges for Servicemen and tourists in West Germany.

Burke's views were a mixture of liberal and conservative, with the crucial caveat that the meaning of these terms in this time period was markedly different from popular conceptions of the present day.

Burke's tribute was well received and one journalist called it " the eulogium of Apelles pronounced by Pericles ".

In the Guildhall Burke's inscription summed up what he had meant to the City: he was ' the minister by whom commerce was united with and made to flourish by war '.

A fourth, a high-speed version of Al Dubin and Joe Burke's " Dancing With Tears In My Eyes ", was indirectly attributed to Exene Cervenka's mournful state of mind years later.

Don Burke, whose own show Burke's Backyard was broadcast by Nine for nearly 18 years before it was axed in 2004, said his production company was " quite shocked by this decision ".

In a review of William Carlos Williams ' biography, " Something Urgent I Have to Say to You ": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, by Herbert Leibowitz, book critic Christopher Benfey wrote of Williams's poetry, " Early and late, Williams held the conviction that poetry was in his friend Kenneth Burke's phrase, ' equipment for living, a necessary guide amid the bewilderments of life.

Burke's work was theoretically and topically diverse, but the idea that seems most influential on Hymes is the application of rhetorical criticism to poetry.

After their elimination, Burke's contract as general manager was not renewed and he was replaced by assistant general manager and director of hockey operations Dave Nonis.

In the Electric Mist, a movie based on one of Burke's novels, was filmed in New Iberia in 2009 and starred Tommy Lee Jones.

The village, originally known as Burke's Corners, was founded by Elijah Burke in 1833.

Burke's Corners was briefly renamed Honeoye, for the New York hometown of several newly-arrived residents.

According to George H. Burke's book Rockland County during the American Revolution, 1776 – 1781, Valley Cottage was once known as Storm's Corner.

When the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was constructed in the late 1840s, the railroad station at the base of that hill was named Burke's Station after Burke, who owned the land in the area and donated a right-of-way to the railroad company.

In 1903, the name of the post office was changed from Burke's Station to " Burke " by Henry C. Copperthite who bought the Burke House and 241 acres to build a racetrack for trotting and pacing horses.

It was formerly " Burke's Junction.

Also in 2005, Carolyn Burke's substantial biography, Lee Miller, A Life, was published in the U. S. by Alfred A. Knopf and in the U. K. by Bloomsbury.