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.

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:

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

Burke argued that the sublime was the more preferred to the two.

* Burke, Thomas ( 1927 ) The Book of the Inn: being two hundred pictures of the English inn from the earliest times to the coming of the railway hotel ; selected and edited by Thomas Burke.

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.

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.

The Book of the Inn: being two hundred pictures of the English inn from the earliest times to the coming of the railway hotel ; selected and edited by Thomas Burke.

Three former premiers were found to have acted improperly and two of them, Ray O ' Connor and Brian Burke, were jailed.

Bolton guessed that the actual killers had been Burke, Winkeler, Goetz, Bob Carey, Raymond " Crane Neck " Nugent, and Claude Maddox ( four shooters and two getaway drivers ).

The two Thompson submachine guns ( serial numbers 2347 and 7580 ) found in Fred Dane ’ s ( an alias for Fred Burke ) Michigan bungalow were personally driven to the Chicago coroner ’ s office by the Berrien County District Attorney.

She soon emerged as a vocal critic of the Burke government's policy of mandatory sentencing, and began preparing the ALP for the election, which was then two years away.

The acquisition was engineered by two Capital Cities executives, Capital Cities Chairman Tom Murphy and Daniel Burke.

The first two stories were filmed in 1985, with Jeremy Brett as Holmes, and David Burke as Watson, and the third in 1986 with Edward Hardwicke taking over the role of Watson.

From that day forward, Miss Burke would pack two lunches-one for herself and one for Harold.

Currently, railroad tracks on the same historical line are owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway and form part of the Manassas line of the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail system, of which two stations lie in the Burke area.

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 served by two Virginia Railway Express stations, Burke Centre ( VRE station ) and Rolling Road ( VRE station ), both on the Manassas line.

* Burke Centre hosts a fall festival for two days every September.

In 1957 Burke played the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York for the first time, but he was dropped from the show after two nights.

Despite his departure from Apollo, in 1992 Burke recalled: " Bess and Ike Berman ... were two of the greatest people in the world.

In August 1958 it was also reported that Burke converted to Islam, and had married, however it only lasted two months before being annulled by 1958.

Burke released two singles on the Singular label: " Doodle Dee Doo " b / w " It's All Right " ( Singular 1314 ) in December 1959, and " This Little Ring " b / w " I'm Not Afraid " ( Singular 1812 ; and Mala 420 ) in May 1960, but neither single charted.

" Although Burke recognized Berns's skill for crafting hit records, he rejected two Berns compositions, " Hang on Sloopy " ( later recorded by ( The McCoys ), and " A Little Bit of Soap ", a recent hit for The Jarmels.

On August 13, 1962 Burke returned to New York to record four songs, but only two were released, and neither charted.

Later in the Spring of 1963 Burke toured on Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions Tour with Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark, The Crystals, The Drifters, Little Esther Phillips, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Thunder, " Little Julius " High ( later known as " Lotsa Poppa "), with The Upsetters Band and Theophilous Odell George ( known as " Gorgeous George "), who was emcee, to mostly mixed white and black audiences, including a concert at Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, two concerts on April 28, 1963 at the Montreal Forum in Shawinigan, Quebec,