Burke : Edmund (1729-97), educated at Ballitore & Trinity College, Dublin 1743-8: founded the Annual Register 1759: Private Secretary to Lord Rockingham, Prime Minister 1765: attacked East India Co. 1766: opposed Lord North’s “Regulating Act” 1773: Member of Committee on affairs of E.I. Co. 1783, wrote both the Ninth Report on the trade of Bengal & the system pursued by Warren Hastings, & the Eleventh Report on the system of presents: drafted Fox’s East India Bill 1783: attacked Hastings in a speech on the debts of the Nawab of Arcot in 1785, & again on the Rohillas in 1786: impeached Hastings before the House of Lords May 1787: led the impeachment at the trial of Hastings in Westminster Hall Feb 1788: secured its continuation in a new Parliament 1790: spoke for nine days in May-June 1794, in reply to Hastings’ defence: his speeches delivered in connection with the impeachment of Warren Hastings “made for an awareness of the responsibilities of empire & the injustices in India unknown before in England”: Hastings was acquitted in April 1795: Burke died July 9, 1797. [Buckland]
... and throw it into the emotional vital. Disciple : But they say that Surendra Nath was Burke and Sheridan combined in his oratorical powers. Sri Aurobindo : He may be like Sheridan. I do not know. Sheridan was a great orator, he never had to think for making a speech. But he was not like Burke. Burke is thought, every sentence of his is weighed with thought. Though he was a great orator he ...
... world's life poured in on us through the foreign telegrams & papers, we read English books, we talked about economics and politics, science & history, enlightenment & education, Rousseau, Mill, Bentham, Burke, and used the language of a life that was not ours, in the vain belief that so we became cosmopolitans and men of enlightenment. Page 1101 Yet all the time India was as much & more outside... confined and narrow scope. In our schools & colleges we were set to remember many things, but learned nothing. We had no real mastery of English literature, though Page 1102 we read Milton & Burke and quoted Byron & Shelley, nor of history though we talked about Magna Charta & Runnymede, nor of philosophy though we could mispronounce the names of most of the German philosophers, nor science though ...
... character. Percival omitted to read it, his only comment was, "Only a great actor can utter this word." We read Burke with him. He would turn over pages after pages of the huge volume, with occasional sentences as to the writer's drift; this would help bring out the per sonality of Burke, the mould of his thought. Percival's figure lives clearly in my mind. He always walked with his back erect, sat ...
... light on the subjects in an all-round way. "I remember him once lecturing on the political philosophy of Burke. His exposition was so luminous that there was no need of questions and answers. Also I remember the days when he was teaching us Reflections on the Revolution in France 1 by Burke. Sri Aurobindo never took the help of the book and never cared to read it with us to the end. He would go ...
... nineteenth century. But he pleads that Burke uses the word commonwealth in the sense of state and therefore Mr. N. N. Ghose can use the word republic in the same sense. This is Metropolitan College logic and Metropolitan College knowledge of English. Does Mr. Ghose really think that republic and commonwealth mean the Page 659 same thing precisely or that Burke would have talked of the Russian ...
... letter of rebuke and censure. Humiliated by this Hastings resigned. On his return to England he was impeached. Edmund Burke, Fox, Sheridan, all well-known Englishmen of the time, Page 96 spoke against Hastings. There was a debate in the Hoi Lords in which Edmund Burke spoke continuously for three days using his fiery eloquence against Hastings. This speech became very famous. We studied ...
... 24. ibid., p. 84. 25. ibid. ,p.85. 26. ibid., p. 88. 27. ibid. , p. 89. 28. I am giving to 'Catharsis' the meaning 'beyonding' suggested by Kenneth Burke. (The Kenyon Review, Summer 1959). 29. Savitri,p.91. 30. ibid. ,p. 92. 31. ibid., p. 94. 32. ibid, pp. 98-9. 33. ibid., pp. 100-1. ... Cycle, pp 297-9. 72. Tr. by Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, pp 371-72. 73. ibid. , pp. 373-77. 74. ibid., p. 378. 75. ibid. , p. 378. 76. Kenneth Burke, Counter-Statement (1931). 77. Savitri, p. 20-1. 78. Collected Poems & Plays, Vol.11, p. 279-80. 79. Savitri, p. 873. 'Overhead' Poetry and Savitri ...
... they are not the whole of politics. Ideas, reflection, the political reason count for quite as much, are quite as essential. But on these, though individual Englishmen, men like Bolingbroke, Arnold, Burke, have had them pre-eminently, the race has always kept a very inadequate hold: and Mr. Hume is distinguished from his countrymen, not by the description of his merits, but by their degree. His original ...
... Rhetoric is a word with which we can batter something we do not like; but rhetoric of one kind or another has been always a great part of the world's best literature; Demosthenes, Cicero, Bossuet and Burke are rhetoricians, but their work ranks with the greatest prose styles that have been left to us. In poetry the accusation of rhetoric might be brought against such lines as Keats' Thou wast not ...
... which he experiences the passages and his thorough internalisation and long possession of these over the decades. Moreover, he 'winds himself into his subject', in the process, as was said of Edmund Burke. The basic methods are those of what T.S. Eliot called 'comparison and analysis.' But remarkable is the deep engagement and at-homeness combined with a keen perception and discrimination of poetic ...
... Rhetoric is a word with which we can batter something we do not like; but rhetoric of one kind or another has been always a great part of the world's best literature; Demosthenes, Cicero, Bossuet and Burke are rhetoricians, but their work ranks with the greatest prose styles that have been left to us. In poetry the accusation of rhetoric might be brought against such lines as Keats's Thou wast ...
... tea.] - she will fly and throw herself on the altar without need of urging: if not, she will sit in tealess meditation, invitation free. As for chivalry, however, it is more than a century ago that Burke lamented: 'The days of chivalry are gone'! And in the year of grace, 1932, with feminism triumphant everywhere - except in France and Bokhara - how do you propose to keep the cult going any longer?" ...
... strength to trample underfoot the weaker peoples, but to see that something came out that enabled resurgent India "to save the whole world". A new music surely; not statistics, not citations from Burke and Mill and Morley, not appeals to British precedents like the Witenagemot and the Magna Carta and the Reform Bill, not even a harking back to the French Revolution or the American Declaration of ...
... in attempting to put down by force a movement which has now taken possession of the nation's heart beyond the possibility of dislodgment." The Anglo-Indian bureaucrats ought to have read Edmund Burke with attention. "If the entire population of a country comes to be awakened by the sacred light of patriotism is it proper to call it sedition? A whole nation cannot commit sedition." Page 368 ...
... approved by Conservative and Radical alike. No, we are not distorting or exaggerating. There it is, plump and plain, in the speech of the great British Radical, the Liberal philosopher, the panegyrist of Burke and Gladstone. It is the last word of England to India on the great issue of Indian self-government. What does Mr. Morley mean by British rule? Not the British connexion, not the continuance of India ...
... to the State 28-June-1907 Mr. Morley has declared from his high archangel's seat that Lajpat Rai was a danger to the State. We wonder what Mr. Morley means by the State. The biographer of Burke must certainly know enough of political science to be aware that a temporary and forcible subjugation of three hundred millions of people by a handful of alien bureaucrats does not constitute an organized ...
... serving their own interests. The sequel to the trial of Warren Hastings is an excellent example of this dominant instinct. Twenty-seven years after the impeachment, sixteen years after the death of Burke had left his orations as a classic to English literature,—a scene was enacted in the House of Commons similar in spirit to the unanimous acclamation of Mr. Morley's speech. Warren Hastings—an old man ...
... to their message. Even master-minds succumb to this weakness. When Dr. Price delivered his eloquent sermon on the great impetus given to national freedom by the revolutionary propaganda in France, Burke became quite unnerved and was so much carried away by an unreasonable fear as to wreck his own reputation as Page 799 a sedate and practical statesman by setting to work to write that hysterical ...
... of the poet, in the act of creating flawless art-form, as an instrument of hidden divine powers. We too preserve the ancient idea in the term we often employ in treating art: inspiration. But we burke its full contents. As long as we fail to accept with open eyes the miraculous working by which perfect beauty shines out in a poem, we shall never explain why a poem rings authentic without our needing ...
... nevertheless enter a caveat and assert that there can be a radicalism of the conservative kind which can also ask fundamental questions about our capitalist social organisation. Radicalism of the kind Burke represented or his spiritual heir in India, C.Rajagopalachari, is a legitimate response to our technologico-Benthamite civilisation, a civilisation now linked up with what is called economic liberalisation ...
... urging—if not, she will sit in tealess meditation invitation-free. It will be a test of her true orientation in this "to tea or not to tea" question. As for chivalry, it is more than a century ago that Burke lamented "The days of chivalry are gone!" And in the year 1932 with Page 254 feminism triumphant—everywhere except in France and Bokhara—how do you propose to keep the cult going any ...
... Devi — she will fly and throw herself on the altar without need of urging: if not, she will sit in tealess meditation, invitation-free. As for chivalry, however, it is more than a century ago that Burke lamented: 'The days of chivalry are gone'! And in the year of grace, 1932, with feminism triumphant everywhere — except in France and Bokhara — how do you propose to keep the cult going any longer ...
... come to Dr. Samuel Johnson of eighteenth-century England. He laid down the law in matters of literature and in all other matters brought up by his circle of eminent friends — Reynolds the painter, Burke the politician-orator, Sheridan the playwright, Garrick the actor, Goldsmith the poet, Boswell the future immortal writer of his friend's biography and the biggest fool of the company with the exception ...
... 51.THE MYSTERY OF THE TVVENTYFIVE JEWELS 52.THE THREE SURPRISES—Joan E. Cass 53.THAT INATTENTIVE BOY 54.ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE—A Greek Legend 55.MY BROTHER, MY BROTHER—Norah Burke 56.THE LAST LEAF—O. Henry 57.THE LITTLE BLACK BOY—William Blake 58.NO TIME FOR FEAR—Philip Yancey 59.MY STRUGGLE FOR AN EDUCATION—Booker T. Washington 60.THE POSTMASTER—Rabindra ...
... possible to combine in a single voice such power and strength with so much sweetness! I had read about the orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, heard the eulogies of France's Mirabeau and Danton, of Burke and Gladstone of England. But it was truly an experience to have heard with one's own ears a human voice of their calibre. One cannot do without a mike today if one is to address an audience of a thousand ...
... fifty years, to 8,400,000,000 sterling! 22 The East India Company was always inclined to put the prosperity of India in the future tense, and as for its administration, was it not described by Burke as "one of the most corrupt and obstructive tyrannies that probably ever existed in the world"? Even the explosive events of 1857 and the assumption of direct responsibility by the British Crown hardly ...
... but the future destiny of the race as well? In this sense, Pururavas the Kshatriya, and Ruru the Brahmin Rishi have both failed. Of either of them it might be sand, modifying Goldsmith's lines on Burke: Born for the universe, he narrowed up his mind, And to himself gave what was meant for mankind. It was not Satan, nor Achitophel, nor Manthara, nor Iago that tempted Pururavas or ...
... optional subject, know of that literature? He has read a novel of Jane Austen or the Vicar of Wakefield, a poem of Tennyson or a book of Milton, at most two plays of Shakespeare, a work of Bacon's or Burke's full of ideas which he is totally incompetent to digest and one or two stray books of Pope, Dryden, Spenser or other, & to crown this pretentious little heap a mass of second-hand criticism dealing ...
... Palleri Cap It was a Marathi student of Sri Aurobindo's, Sanker B. Didmishe, who gave another comprehensive statement (in Marathi). "I was in Inter at that time. Sri Aravind was teaching Burke's French Revolution. As his method of teaching consisted in going to the roots, one could never forget what he taught, even though the whole text was not completed. His mastery of the English language ...
... the policy of passive resistance and the form of certain resolutions. The last is a question to be decided by the Congress itself and all that the Nationalists demand is that discussion shall not be burked and that they shall not be debarred from their Page 155 constitutional right of placing their views before the National Assembly. On the other points, they cannot sacrifice their ideal ...
... dictate general lectures bearing on the various aspects pertaining to the text. 24 Page 52 The method must have yielded salutary results, especially when applied to a classic like Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, which Sri Aurobindo taught in 1902. After the first years, Sri Aurobindo seems to have taken the measure of his wards and they too seem to have made the most ...
... of his friends: "As for me I am 40 - and some months; by the time I am 42 I shall regard the matter with 42de I hope." 59 2. Excellent pun: Example 1: (A play on the word 'habit'): Burke's great rival, Charles James Fox, was no mean master of the retort. Once, asked by a friend to explain the meaning of the passage in the Psalms, 'He clothed himself with cursing, like as with a garment ...
... passed and all was as before; Only that 1 deathless memory I bore. ² In 1902 Sri Aurobindo was occupied in teaching French and English at the college. Southey's Life of Nelson and Burke's ¹ Alternate reading: its. ². Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), p. 138. Page 52 reflections on the French Revolution ...
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