Edmund Burke

Burkes Speech on Conciliation with America Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was born in Dublin, in 1729. He was brought up in the Protestant faith of his father, who was an attorney of good repute albeit a man of irritable disposition. His mother, a Roman Catholic, was a largeminded woman of good family, with a strong hold upon the affection and reverence of her son. Next to hers, the profoundest influence in Burke searly years was exerted by the Quaker schoolmaster of Ballitore, a village some thirty miles from Dublin, who taught well both the mind and the heart of his pupil, and toward whom Burke cherished a lively gratitude as long as he lived. In 1743 Burke entered Dublin University, at nearly the same time with Oliver Goldsmith, whom, however, it does not appear that he knew in college days. Burke scourse at the University was unconventional; not dissipated, but desultory He enjoyed the studies of the curriculum keenly,, but not mthe allotted order His course upon the whole formed a valuable brooding period for both mind and moral purpose.
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