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

Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish politician who served in the British House of Commons and opposed the French Revolution, is credited as one of the founders of conservativism in Great Britain.

Modern European conservatives such as Edmund Burke have found the extreme idealism of either democracy may endanger broader liberties, and similarly reject " abstract reason " as a guide for political theory.

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.

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

Edmund Burke ( 1729 – 1797 )

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:

Edmund Burke is often considered the father of conservatism in the English-speaking world.

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.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

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.

* criticisms ( by writers such as Joseph-Marie de Maistre and Edmund Burke ) of excesses of the French Revolution, and consequent rising doubts that reason and rationalism could solve all problems

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.

However, for his part, Hayek found this term " singularly unattractive " and offered the term " Old Whig " ( a phrase borrowed from Edmund Burke ) instead.

Philosophers who have criticized the concept of human rights include Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx.

Many believe that Strauss also found historicism in Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, Augustine, and John Stuart Mill.

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.

" Dr. Johnson commented on the inoffensiveness of his nature ; Edmund Burke noted his " strong turn for humor ".

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.

Opponents of the Revolution and defenders of religion, most influentially the Irish essayist Edmund Burke, therefore placed the blame for the excesses of the French Revolution directly on the revolutionaries ' misplaced ( as he considered it ) adulation of Rousseau.

In 1906 Mary, Lottie and Jack supported the great Irish American singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in the play Edmund Burke.

* 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.

* Edmund Burke: Irish member of the British parliament, Burke is credited with the creation of conservative thought.

Anderson lives in Highbury, north London, with his wife and three children ; Isabella, Flora and Edmund.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.

Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

His successor as the leading actor of London, Edmund Kean, was more often criticised for emotional excess, particularly in the fifth act.

Edmund Mortimer died in the final battle and Owain ’ s wife Margaret along with two of his daughters ( including Catrin ) and three of Mortimer's grand-daughters were taken prisoner and incarcerated in the Tower of London.

The SPR was founded in 1882 in London by a group of eminent thinkers including Edmund Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, William Fletcher Barrett, Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Dawson Rogers.

Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London ( c 1500-1569 ) stopped this in 1542.

* September 5 – Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London ( b. c. 1500 )

* October 17 – British magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London.

Æthelred was able to hold out against Cnut in London, but in April 1016 Æthelred died, as did Edmund in November.

Maskelyne was born in London, the third son of Edmund Maskelyne of Purton, Wiltshire.

Edmund went to London.

Æthelred died on 23 April 1016, and the citizens and councillors in London chose Edmund as king and probably crowned him.

While the Danes laid siege to London, Edmund headed for Wessex, where the people submitted to him and he gathered an army.

They renewed the siege while Edmund went to Wessex to raise further troops, returning to again relieve London, defeat the Danes at Otford, and pursue Cnut into Kent.

Shortly afterwards, on 30 November 1016, King Edmund died, probably in London.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

William was a successful, well-connected and wealthy London lawyer who died in 1534, and Joyce was the daughter of courtier Sir Edmund Denny and the sister of Sir Anthony Denny, who was the principal gentleman of King Henry VIII's privy chamber.

William Walsingham served as a member of the commission that was appointed to investigate the estates of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1530, and his elder brother, Sir Edmund Walsingham, was the lieutenant of the Tower of London.

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, " The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar "; decades later, historian Edmund Morris maintained that it remained the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

Time Out London critic Tom Milne writes: " and Edmund Goulding almost transform the soap into style ; a Rolls-Royce of the weepie world.