biography
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| (1729–97)
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| biography:
| British statesman and political philosopher, born in Dublin, Ireland. Educated at a Quaker boarding-school and at Trinity College, Dublin, he began studying law (1750), but then took up literary work. His early writing includes his Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756). He became secretary for Ireland, and entered parliament in 1765. His main speeches and writings belong to the period when his party was opposed to Lord North's American policy (1770–82). His Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) was read all over Europe. |
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