He shares his name with an American journalist often credited with engineering the presidential nomination of Franklin Pierce. He attempted to found a school of followers with his late works, including Letters on a Regicide Peace, but succeeded only in converting the briefly prominent William Elliot. This onetime secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham argued for more enlig
He shares his name with an American journalist often credited with engineering the presidential nomination of Franklin Pierce. He attempted to found a school of followers with his late works, including Letters on a Regicide Peace, but succeeded only in converting the briefly prominent William Elliot. This onetime secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham argued for more enlightened treatment of the colonies in his "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents." He advocated a trustee rather than representative form of legislative delegation and attempted to show that the self-preservation instinct is the origin of aesthetic sensibility in his Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. FTP, name this anti-Tory author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, often considered the founder of conservative political philosophy.
He shares his name with an American journalist often credited with engineering the presidential nomination of Franklin Pierce.
Edmund Burke