Outline History of English And American Literature
Outline History of English And American Literature
Johnson, Charles Frederick, 1836-1931
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There has been some controversy as to the exact date of the birth of Edmund Burke, which serves to illus- trate on what an unimportant issue a discussion Burke, can be based. Mr. John Morley, by far the 1729-1797. kest authority on all questions connected with Burke's life, thinks that the most probable date was Janu- ary 12, 1729. Burke's father was a Protestant attorney of Dublin, and his mother was a Catholic. Burke was educated in the Protestant faith, and sent to an excel- lent school kept... by a Quaker named Abraham Shackel- ton at Ballitore, County Kildare, and afterward became a student at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1743, where he remained till 1748. In 1750 he went to London to " keep terms " at the Temple ; that is, to take the first step toward admission to the bar. He seems to have felt a distaste for the profession, and turned to the more uncertain career of literature and politics. In 1756 he pub- THE GEORGIAN PERIOD (17U TO 1800) 285 lished an ironical imitation of Lord Bolingbroke entitled 44 A Vindication of Natural Society " in which the style of Lord Bolingbroke was so well imitated as to deceive good judges.
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