Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 17: January-June, 1825 Edmund Burke was born at Dublin, January lst, O. S. 1730. His father was a respectable attorney. After being some time at the Dublin University; he removed to London in 1750, with the intention of becoming a member of the bar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.