Age of Johnson
Edmund Burke (1729-97)
He is chiefly remembered in history for the famous
impeachment speech that he gave against Warren Hastings in 1786.
In his writings about India, heobserved that India had a
great civilization but it had degenerated and stagnated.
He was one of the earliest to introduce the idea of the
Native Effeminacy.
He criticized Hastings for exploiting the Indians.
He also wrote two small treatises.
A Vindication Of Natural Society
Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the
sublime and the beautiful.
Some of his pamphlets were
Observations on the Present State of Nation (1769)
Thoughts on the Present Discontents.
Other important works are
Reflections on the French Revolution (1790)
A letter to a Noble Lord (1790)
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
Thoughts on French Affairs
Letters on a Regicide Peace.
His style was
conditioned by oratory.
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