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.

Lord Acton wrote in 1880 that he considered Gladstone as one " of the three greatest Liberals " ( along with Edmund Burke and Lord Macaulay ).

Burke wrote:

Thomas Burke wrote Limehouse Nights ( 1916 ), a collection of stories centered around life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London.

In response Burke wrote his first song, " Christmas Presents From Heaven ," which he recorded in the local penny arcade and played for her on 18 December 1954, the day before her death at the age of 54.

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

In August 2008 Burke told Mojo magazine: " I wrote that on the train, ' cos I had no song and I started thinking on old songs that I could do uptempo and I thought, ( sings Gospel song pacier, with horn arrangement ) so I had to keep that in my head ' til I got to the studio.

With the assistance of Gene Page, who provided orchestration, in 1972 Burke wrote film soundtracks for blaxploitation films Hammer, and Cool Breeze, described as " a mostly black remake of The Asphalt Jungle.

In an open letter to his children, Burke wrote: " Your love and your strength, and the love of your mothers, have made me the strongest-minded father in the world.

Burke's daughter, Melanie " Honey " Burke McCall, a Neo Soul singer who is an accomplished artist as well as a freelance background recording artist with companies such as Daxwood Records, Casablanca, A & M and Rawkus Records and a studio artist for groups such as Billy Preston, Peacock ( Anna Gayle group ), and Leslie Uggams, and toured with Chaka Khan, and wrote and produced Family, & Friends, a 14-song original soundtrack for Ms, which was released in 2005, and opened for Jocelyn Brown, Jaheim, Norman Connors, and Angela Bofill, as well as for her father at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2006.

New York Times writer Ben Sisario wrote of Burke: " Wide-shaped in his youth, he grew into Henry VIII-like corpulence, and in his later years had to be wheeled to his throne.

Rockingham wrote to Burke on 14 February 1771: " I fear indeed the future struggles of the people in defence of their Constitutional Rights will grow weaker and weaker.

Burke wrote to him on 3 July 1782: " You are Lord Rockingham in every thing.

Edmund Burke wrote his Vindication of Natural Society in imitation of Bolingbroke's style, but in refutation of his principles ; and in the Reflections on the French Revolution he exclaims, " Who now reads Bolingbroke, who ever read him through?

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

Edmund Burke in his " Reflections on the Revolution in France " wrote dismissively of Toland and his fellows: " Who, born within the last 40 years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers?

However, his biographers are in agreement that Burke wrote and edited the book single-handedly until 1765 when he entered Parliament.

He was famous as a writer of epitaphs and wrote inscriptions for the tombs of Burke, Charles Burney, Johnson, Fox and Gibbon.

Burke wrote that: " I never desire to be thought a better whig than Lord Somers ".

If, indeed, Burke did make the statement Carlyle attributes to him, the remark may have been in the back of Carlyle's mind when he wrote in his French Revolution ( 1837 ) that " A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up ; increases and multiplies, irrepressible, incalculable.

Edmund Burke, no friend of the revolution, wrote in 1790: " the public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate ; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.

After boarding the plane, Burke wrote a message on an airsickness bag which he probably gave to Thomson to read before shooting him:

Burke wrote two autobiographies, both with Cameron Van Shippe, With a Feather on My Nose ( Appleton 1949 ) and With Powder on My Nose ( Coward McCann, 1959 ).

She was also a talented lyricist and with her collaborator David Burke wrote pop songs as well as commercial jingles and TV theme songs.

In 2006, Jim Burke authored and illustrated a children's book version of " Take Me Out To The Ballgame ".

Fox read the book and found it " in very bad taste " and " favouring Tory principles ", but avoided pressing the matter for a while to preserve his relationship with Burke.

In his preface to the 1758 volume Burke noted the difficulties he had faced in writing the history section of the book.

From this time Thomas English was closely involved in writing the book and is regarded by some authorities as having taken over the editorship from Burke in that year.

Scholars are divided on the question of Burke ’ s association with the book thereafter, although many suggest that he continued to contribute to the history section and that he played a significant role in overseeing The Annual Register ’ s compilation until the 1790s, even though much of the editorial work by this stage was being done by others.

Although the contributors are scattered throughout the world, the publisher invites them to an annual dinner, which serves as a forum for discussion of the book, and at which a traditional toast “ to the immortal memory of Edmund Burke ” is still drunk in port, after the meal.

Flamborough Head and the village of Flamborough were also the setting for the book Bill Takes the Helm ( Betty Bowen, published 1955 by Burke Publishing Company, London, England ).

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 made-for-television film directed by Martyn Burke and based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.

Muntz ' cultural impact was such that he was mentioned in novels, including children's book The Neddiad: How Neddie Took The Train, Went To Hollywood, And Saved Civilization by Daniel Manus Pinkwater, The Lost Get-Back Boogie by James Lee Burke, and Franklin Mason's Four Roses in Three Acts.

Hertz is in part responding to Thomas Weiskel's book The Romantic Sublime, probably the most influential recent account of British and German Romantic attitudes towards the Sublime of both Burke and Longinus.

* THE BUILDERS OF THE NAVY, A GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF PETT by H. Farnham Burke and Oswald Barron, from the public domain Google book The Ancestor ( a magazine ), A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, edited by Oswald Barron, F. S. A., Number X, July 1904.

The review of the book in the Annual Register was probably written by Whig MP Edmund Burke.

In his book Language as Symbolic Action ( 1966 ), Burke defined humankind as a " symbol using animal " ( p. 3 ).

Executive Producer Michael Braverman first cast Chris Burke in the 1987 television movie Desperate, based on Braverman's favorite book, Lord Jim.

The strengthening of British influence in Bengal with the battle of Plassey in 1757 coincided with significant developments of thought in England ( John Locke in the 1680s, Adam Smith with his monumental book in 1776, and Edmund Burke ) and in the USA ( Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, among others ).

Trow's contention that MIT is in some way inherently paradoxical foreshadows an observation James Burke would later make in the book and television series The Day the Universe Changed.

Henry Hill's ex-wife Karen said in Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy, " Tommy DeSimone always drove around in a brand-new car and wore expensive clothes, and he and Angela lived in a two-room tenement slum ," while Hill described DeSimone and Burke by saying, " It didn't take anything for these guys to kill you.

In the book Wiseguy, Henry Hill said they threw a " welcome home " party at Robert's Lounge, which was owned by Jimmy Burke, for William " Billy Batts " Devino, a made man in Carmine Fatico's crew ( the same crew John Gotti was a part of ) in the Gambino crime family.

Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror ( ISBN 1-85043-396-8 ) is a 2003 book by Jason Burke about the history and goals of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda and a loose amalgam of related groups.

Jason Burke also wrote the book Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam ( ISBN 1-85043-666-5 ).

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke and one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution.

Burke maintains, at taxpayer expense, a salaried staff to ghost-write speeches, resolutions, and works of non-fiction for him, including among others Thomas J. O ' Gorman, carried on Burke's City Council staff payroll as a " legislative aide " since 1995 In October 2006, Burke and O ' Gorman published End of Watch, a book which details the lives and tragedies of police officers who have died in the line of duty.