Analytic theorists like Henry Home, Lord Kames, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke hoped to reduce beauty to some list of attributes.

One Australian scholar argues, " For Edmund Burke and Australians of a like mind, the essence of conservatism lies not in a body of theory, but in the disposition to maintain those institutions seen as central to the beliefs and practices of society.

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.

Oblique reference to the origin of Habeas corpus underlies Scott's next novel, Ivanhoe, set during the era of the creation of the Magna Carta, which conservatives like Walter Scott and Edmund Burke regarded as rooted in immemorial British custom and precedent.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Above East Burke the valley rises so that its bottom appears like a terrace.

MacNeille commented: " The best part of doing Babs is that she's a mimic, like me ... In the show I do Babs doing Billie Burke, Hepburn, Bette Davis, Madonna and Cher.

The more radical Whigs, like Sheridan, broke with Burke more readily at this point.

Despite his initial reluctance, like several former gospel singers Aretha Franklin, and Wilson Pickett, Burke was " molded into a more secular direction when he signed with Atlantic in the ' 60s ," and became one of " the " backsliders ," artists who " preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", after deciding eventually that " secular music was not the anithesis of the church but, rather, ' a new avenue, a new dimension to spread the gospel.

" Burke sounded like a Baptist preacher in a country church, and for Wexler he was the first and possibly the greatest of all ' 60s soul men.

" Burke: " I like country music but I don't think it was deliberate.

As he increased in weight, " Burke ’ s sheer bulk meant that he could never be a dancer like James Brown, but like Brown, his act was full of showmanship.

Burke and black performers like James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, " would adopt the ' house-wrecking ' tactics of black preachers, and their shows functioned in much the same way as black religious events in that performer and audience became immersed in the music, arriving together at an ecstatic state that allowed them to feel a deep intensity of experience.

" According to Weldon McDougal, Burke " turned theatres like the Apollo and the Uptown into churches, he had folk running down the aisles to be saved by his music.

After failing to crack the top ten for a couple of years, by the beginning of 1968 Burke was no longer a major artist at Atlantic Records, who were producing hit records for other performers on their label including Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, and were also reaping the rewards of their distribution deal with Stax on artists like Otis Redding and Eddie Floyd.

Burke recalls: “ We went to Muscle Shoals and recorded Proud Mary, which they didn ’ t like at all.

Like the other " backsliders " and all the artists who preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", like Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Dinah Washington, Napoleon " Nappy " Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Brook Benton, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Armstrong, Burke recorded an album of gospel songs, " not to be ' saved ' or under any pressure but for their own pleasure and as a tribute to their roots, because, as kids, all of them, like all black children, had sung in church.

In an interview in Billboard, Burke explained: " My relationship with Jerry Wexler is like a two-way street.

According to Don McLeese, in " Oh What a Feeling ”, " Burke commands it like the chitlin ’ circuit equivalent of Hamlet or Lear, not so much singing as much as exhorting, declaiming, engaging in a fevered call-and-response ( with himself?

In pages of O ' Malley and Tom Burke Lever anticipates not a few of the best effects of Marbot, Thibaut, Lejeune, Griois, Seruzier, Burgoyne and the like.

Several celebrities like Chris Martin of Coldplay and Alexandra Burke had stated that they're fond of Westlife.

Some of the members of the committee ( a minority ) wanted ( like Burke thirty-four years earlier ) to make officers of the College of Arms into " salaried civil servants of the state ".

Counter-Revolutionary writings like those of Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre and Augustin Barruel all asserted a close link between the Enlightenment and the Revolution, as did many of the revolutionary leaders themselves, so that the Enlightenment became increasingly discredited as the Revolution became increasingly bloody.

The power of ' community governance ' has been stressed by many philosophers from Antiquity to the 18th century, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and Edmund Burke ( Bowles and Gintis, 2002 ).

* Burke & Wills Web A comprehensive website containing many of the historical documents relating to the Burke & Wills Expedition.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

The first large subdivision in the vicinity, Kings Park, was constructed beginning in 1960, and was followed by many others over the next two decades, converting Burke into a densely-populated suburban community.

Burke is home to Lake Braddock Secondary School, though many students within the district attend Robinson Secondary School and West Springfield High School, as well as South County Secondary School.

At the age of 7 Solomon preached " He is My Life ," the first of many sermonettes, in Solomon's Temple, In his youth, " he was so charismatic in the pulpit that he was known as the Boy Wonder Preacher ," and by all accounts, " young Burke was a frantic sermonizer, spellbinding in his delivery.

While Burke wrote or co-wrote many of those songs, he confessed: " I couldn ’ t write music or read music.

While Burke wasn't the only one pursuing this path, not many others did so as successfully.

In 2008 Burke discussed his reasons for leaving Atlantic Records forty years earlier: " We left Atlantic because we weren ’ t being treated properly and so many things had been done that, as I said before, have still not been overturned to this day.

Burke's granddaughter Candy Burke ( born 1977 ) was a backing singer at many of Burke's performances, including the July 2008 Juan-les-Pins concert, where she performed a rendition of " I Will Survive.

For many years Burke struggled with his health, with his " weight estimated somewhere between 300 and 400 pounds " in 2006.

So many of his peers of the time had that one huge mega-hit that would stamp them as eternal legends, and while Burke came close, he never found that one everlasting song.

To the surprise of many Fitzgerald excluded Richie Ryan, Richard Burke and Tom O ' Donnell, former Fine Gael stalwarts, from the cabinet.

Soon, the group was in demand in New York music circles for their background work for such artists as The Drifters, Ben E. King, Chuck Jackson, Dinah Washington, Ronnie " The Hawk " Hawkins, and Solomon Burke among many others.

The Whig party further split over the French Revolution, with Burke writing to Fitzwilliam on 4 January 1797: " As to our old friends, they are so many individuals, not a jot more separated from your Lordship, than they are from one another.

At the time of his appointment as Chief of Naval Operations, Burke was still a Rear Admiral, Upper Half ( Two Star ) and was promoted over the heads of many Flag Officers who were senior to him.

Throughout this period, Captain Burke led his forces in many offensive operations ... His indomitable fighting spirit and great personal courage contributed directly to the success of our forces in that area and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

Sixty thousand copies of this work were sold within a few days ; a cheap edition was soon issued which sold twice as many copies ; the pamphlet was extolled by one set of politicians and abused by another ; amongst its critics were Dr Markham, archbishop of York, John Wesley, and Edmund Burke ; and Price rapidly became one of the best known men in England.

Rogers himself kept a notebook in which he entered impressions of the conversation of many of his distinguished friends — Fox, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, Richard Porson, John Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Lord Erskine, Scott, Lord Grenville and the Duke of Wellington.

Opie painted many notable men and women of the day including Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Johnson, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Bannister, Joseph Munden, Charles James Fox, William Betty, Edmund Burke, John Crome, James Northcote, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Girtin, Robert Southey, Samuel Parr, Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Shelley ; 508 portraits in all, most in oil, and 252 other pictures.

Burke wrote many of the most famous Road to ... movie songs as well as the score to Lamour's And the Angels Sing.

He met with Edmund Burke, the Earl of Chatham, and many other distinguished members of Parliament who were friendly to the American Colonies.

Along with many such conservative Whigs as Edmund Burke, Portland was deeply uncomfortable with the French Revolution and broke with Fox over this issue, joining Pitt's government as Home Secretary in 1794.

As original characters began to leave the series ( Mum Brooks, Lynn Warner, Karen and Greg all appeared beyond the initial sixteen episodes, but had made their exits by the end of the 1979 season, with Greg leaving early 1980 ), new characters arrived: hulking husband-basher Monica Ferguson ( Lesley Baker ), sneering career criminal Noeline Burke ( Jude Kuring ), idealistic murderess Roslyn Coulson ( Sigrid Thornton ) and imprisoned mother Pat O ' Connell ( Monica Maughan ), as well as many shorter term inmates with briefer storylines.