Burke wrote the book on Language As Symbolic Action.

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.

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.

"< ref > Gödel's answer to a special questionnaire sent him by the sociologist Burke Grandjean.

Later in the century, the Whig MP Edmund Burke " admitted him into the whig pantheon ".

Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.

Burke County citizens participated in the Battle of Kings Mountain that pitted Appalachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the British commander Ferguson at Kings Mountain, SC in the American Revolution, rather than waiting for him to come to them, militiamen throughout the Blue Ridge crossed over the mountains and thus were called the " Over Mountain Men ".

Burke, with fear of the radical upheaval in France foremost in his mind, took Pitt's side in the debate, dismissing Nonconformists as " men of factious and dangerous principles ", to which Fox replied that Burke's " strange dereliction from his former principles ... filled him with grief and shame ".

On 6 May 1791, a tearful confrontation on the floor of the Commons ( officially, and rather irrelevantly, during a debate on the particulars of a bill for the government of Canada ) finally shattered the quarter-century friendship of Fox and Burke, as the latter dramatically crossed the floor of the House to sit down next to Pitt, taking the support of a good deal of the more conservative Whigs with him.

" The details of policy – particularly of economics – bored him, in contrast with the intensity of Burke ’ s legal pursuit of Warren Hastings, and of Pitt ’ s prosecution of the war against France.

Smith was praised for " making dancing look manly " and for his " natural charm ," and Burke was given credit for coaching Smith while still allowing him to improvise some moves.

The painting that first brought him into public notice, and gained him the acquaintance and patronage of Edmund Burke, was founded on an old tradition of the landing of St Patrick on the sea-coast of Cashel, ( this is a mistake reproduced from another source, Cashel is an inland town far from the sea ) and of the conversion and Baptism of the King of Cashel It was exhibited in London in 1762 or 1763 and rediscovered in the 1980s, in unexhibitable condition.

The difference between them is said to have been widened by Burke ’ s growing intimacy with Sir Joshua Reynolds, and by Barry ’ s jealousy of the fame and fortune of his rival “ in a humbler walk of the art .” About the same time he painted a pair of classical subjects, Mercury inventing the lyre, and Narcissus, the last suggested to him by Burke.

" According to Burke, his mother introduced him to Jimmy Reed and Ray Charles as well as that era's king of smooth, Billy Eckstein.

After Burke sang at her funeral on 24 December 1954, some local church people asked him to perform at their Christmas program.

Burke recalls that Bess Berman, the owner of Apollo Records, an independent label with national distribution ; Jimmy Bracken of Vee-Jay Records ; and Don Robey of Peacock Records of Texas, all wanted to sign him to their label.

" Berman, known as " Queen Bee ," was a formidable Jewish woman of Austrian and German ancestry, who had been president of Apollo Records since May 1948, attempted to transform Burke into a pop crooner, and is reported to have said, " Let's take this church boy and make him the next Harry Belafonte.

" While Louis helped promote the song in exchange for the credit, even appearing on TV's The Steve Allen Show with Burke on 4 January 1957, he forgot Burke's name, and introduced him as Argentinian Dick Haymes, who had covered the song on Decca Records.

After a performance on June 13, 1957 at the Wide Awake Ballroom in Newark, New Jersey, Burke became convinced that his manager Kae Williams was cheating him out of most of his performance fees.

During this period Burke met Brother Rashish, who became his mentor, taught him the Islamic faith, as well as Arabic.

In 1959 Philadelphia businessman Marvin Leonard " Babe " Chivian ( born 24 August 1925 ; died January 1972 ), " a body-and-fender man ," and real estate speculator, offered Burke a red Lincoln Continental convertible if Burke would agree to a management contract with him.

Meeting Burke " was not purely kismet ," as Wexler and Ertegun were aware of Burke and his talent, as " Wexler ’ s former mentor at Billboard, Paul Ackerman, had been urging him to sign Burke for several years ," but were waiting for Burke's contract with Apollo Records to expire.