Edmund Burke, in his ' Reflections on the Revolution in France ', argued that a government does not have the right to run up large debts and then throw the burden on the taxpayer:

Burke argued the sublime was a source of awe or fear brought about by strong emotions such as terror or mental pain.

However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Osama Bin Laden was " outside of CIA eyesight " and that there is " no support " in any " reliable source " for " the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.

However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Osama Bin Laden was " outside of CIA eyesight " and that there is " no support " in any " reliable source " for " the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.

On the conservative side, Burke argued that this understanding encouraged caution and avoidance of radical change.

Burke argued that a force of around 40 Polaris submarines ( each with 16 missiles ) was a reasonable answer.

Burke further argued that land-based missiles and bombers were vulnerable to attack, which made the U. S .- Soviet nuclear balance dangerously unstable.

James Burke argued that some of the directives initiated in the Counter-Reformation had consequences that created challenges to the Catholic Church's authority.

At Bilbarka on the Darling Burke and his second-in-command, Landells, argued after Burke decided to dump the 60 gallons (≈ 270 litres ) of rum that Landells had brought to feed to the camels in the belief that it prevented scurvy.

However, scholars such as Jason Burke, Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Christopher Andrew, and Vasily Mitrokhin have argued that Bin Laden was " outside of CIA eyesight " and that there is " no support " in any " reliable source " for " the claim that the CIA funded bin Laden or any of the other Arab volunteers who came to support the mujahideen.

Peter Burke argued that late medieval social elites had their own culture, but were culturally ‘ amphibious ', able to participate in and affect popular traditions.

While Burke supported aristocracy, monarchy, and the Established Church, liberals such as Charles James Fox supported the Revolution, and a programme of individual liberties, civic virtue and religious toleration, while radicals such as Priestley, William Godwin, Thomas Paine, and Mary Wollstonecraft, argued for a further programme of republicanism, agrarian socialism, and abolition of the " landed interest ".

He further argued, following Burke, that society is held together by authority, in the sense of the right to obedience, not by the imagined rights of citizens.

During the 2008 Conservative Party Conference, Gove argued that Edmund Burke, an eighteenth-century philosopher who commented on organic society and the French Revolution, was the greatest conservative ever.

In the Reflections, Burke argued that the French Revolution would end disastrously because its abstract foundations, purportedly rational, ignored the complexities of human nature and society.

In the trustee model, Burke argued that his behavior in Parliament should be informed by his knowledge and experience, allowing him to serve the public interest.

The setting of the action in a ruined abbey, drawing on Burke ’ s aesthetic theory of the sublime and the beautiful established the location as a place of terror and of safety.

His discussion of the sublime is directed against Burke ’ s emphasis on feelings of terror and powerlessness.

She goes on: " I apprehend that neither Shakespeare nor Milton by their fictions, nor Mr Burke by his reasoning, anywhere looked to positive horror as a source of the sublime, though they all agree that terror is a very high one ; and where lies the great difference between horror and terror, but in uncertainty and obscurity, that accompany the first, respecting the dreader evil.

It could be said that Helen of Troy may certainly have been the most beautiful woman in the world, but she was never sublime in Greek literature: however Edmund Burke cites the scene of the old men looking at Helen's " terrible " beauty on the ramparts of Troy — he regards it as an instance of the beautiful, but his imagination is captured by its sublimity.

* Burke, Uvedale Price and the Romantic " sublime "

Burke was the first philosopher to argue that the sublime and the beautiful are mutually exclusive.

Burke described the sensation attributed to the sublime as a " negative pain " which he called delight, and which is distinct from positive pleasure.

Edmund Burke in his 1757 Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful said the soft gentle curves appealed, he thought, to the male sexual desire, while the sublime horrors appealed to our desires for self-preservation.

Eventually, he worked out a thesis on a new theory of the sublime in the tradition of Longinus, Burke and Kant, later published as The Sublime: Groundwork towards a Theory by the recommendation of Joseph A. Munitiz, then the Master of Campion Hall, Oxford.

The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and the sublime, for Burke, can be understood by means of their causal structures.

Immanuel Kant critiqued Burke for not understanding the causes of the mental effects that occur in the experience of the beautiful or the sublime.

:" To make psychological observations, as Burke did in his treatise on the beautiful and the sublime, thus to assemble material for the systematic connection of empirical rules in the future without aiming to understand them, is probably the sole true duty of empirical psychology, which can hardly even aspire to rank as a philosophical science.

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

There is a debate in the historiography, because Hooker lived too early, Halifax did not belong to any party, Hume was not involved in politics, and Burke was a Whig.

Edmund Burke was the private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and official pamphleteer to the Rockingham branch of the Whig Party.

Latin conservatism was less pragmatic and more reactionary than the conservatism of Burke.

Burke was a Whig, while the term Tory is given to the later Conservative Party.

However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.

Other thinkers, like the conservative Edmund Burke, maintained that the Revolution was the product of a few conspiratorial individuals who brainwashed the masses into subverting the old order — a claim rooted in the belief that the revolutionaries had no legitimate complaints.

* Diana, Princess of Wales, noblewoman, her mother, Frances Burke Roche was a descendant of the Earls of Fermoy

In 2002, a one-tenth hour bill was introduced, partly due to the encouragement and funding from Alternatives Federal Credit Union and feedback from retailers who complained about the awkwardness of only having larger denominations to work with ; the bills bear the signatures of both HOURS President Steve Burke and the president of AFCU.

It was around this time as the musician's popularity increased that he acquired the nickname, " Soul Brother No. 1 ", after failing to win the title " King of Soul " from Solomon Burke during a Chicago gig two years prior.

He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann.

but I have only one ye now, and hardly that .’ I was really quite touched ". On 5 November Reynolds, fearing he may not have an opportunity to write a will, wrote a memorandum intended to be his last will and testament, with Edmund Burke, Edmond Malone and Philip Metcalfe named as executors.

Burke was present on the night Reynolds died, and he was moved within hours to write a eulogy of Reynolds:

When Rousseau subsequently became celebrated as a theorist of education and child-rearing, his abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for ad hominem attacks.

This general view of the unexcavated Buddhist stupa near Baramulla, with two figures standing on the summit, and another at the base with measuring scales, was taken by John Burke in 1868.

Burke was one of the biggest supporters of the American Revolution.

* Kenneth Burke was a rhetorical theorist, philosopher, and poet.

His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, ( 1923 – 1974 ) was a nurse.