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Burke

noun
1.
British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797).  Synonym: Edmund Burke.
2.
United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903).  Synonyms: Burk, Calamity Jane, Martha Jane Burk, Martha Jane Burke.
verb
(past & past part. burked; pres. part. burking)
1.
Murder without leaving a trace on the body.
2.
Get rid of, silence, or suppress.



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"Burke" Quotes from Famous Books



... choose to add the expressions of indignation which the examination of the facts before him called out. I was satisfied from the effect they produced on him, that if all the hideous catalogues of cases now accumulated were fully brought to the knowledge of the public, nothing, since the days of Burke and Hare, has raised such a cry of horror as would be shrieked in the ears ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... remember Burke's curious assertion that there were 80,000 incorrigible jacobins in England. Mr. Colquhoun is equally precise in the number of beggars, prostitutes, and thieves in the City of London. Mercetinus, who wrote under Lewis ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
... in the beginning, Paine did not aspire to be the political Prometheus of England. He rather looked to the Whig party and to Mr. Burke as the leaders in such a movement. As for himself, a veteran reformer from another hemisphere, he was willing to serve as a volunteer in the campaign against the oppressors of mankind. He had adopted for his motto, "Where liberty is not, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... equal credit by making Hawthorne his guest at the White House; but if he did not go so far as this, it cannot be doubted that he treated Hawthorne handsomely. There were giants at Washington in those days. Webster and Clay were gone, but Seward was the Charles Fox and Sumner the Edmund Burke of America; Chase and Marcy were not much less in intellectual stature. Hawthorne must have met them, but we hear nothing ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... says Burke in his magnificent language, "that great immutable pre-existent law, prior to our devices, and prior to all our sensations, antecedent to our very existence, by which we are knit and connected in the eternal ...
— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan


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