h. burton

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Harold Hitz

[hits] , 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.

Sir Richard ( Richard Jenkins ) 1925–84, English actor, born in Wales.

Sir Richard Francis, 1821–90, English explorer, Orientalist, and writer.

Robert ( "Democritus Junior" ) 1577–1640, English clergyman and author.

a town in central Michigan.

a male given name.

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burton (ˈbɜːt^ən)

—n
1.	nautical a kind of light hoisting tackle
2.	slang (Brit) go for a burton
	a. to be broken, useless, or lost
	b. to die

[C15: of uncertain origin]

Burton (ˈbɜːt^ən)

—n
1.	Sir Richard Francis. 1821--90, English explorer, Orientalist, and writer who discovered Lake Tanganyika with John Speke (1858); produced the first unabridged translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night (1885--88)
2.	Richard, real name Richard Jenkins. 1925--84, Welsh stage and film actor: films include Becket (1964), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and Equus (1977)
3.	Robert, pen name Democritus Junior. 1577--1640, English clergyman, scholar, and writer, noted for his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
4.	Tim. born 1958, US film director whose work includes Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Ed Wood (1994), and Big Fish (2003)

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"Burke and Adams had much in common. Adams read Burke's Philosophical Inquiry, for example, as part of his preparation for life and a career. Burke—who had sympathized with the American Revolution—after all, the patriots were only seeking their rights as Englishmen—became the avowed enemy of the French Revolution. Adams for his part was not only a thinker, he was a doer: a daring patriot, diplomat, vice-president and president. Yet he never abandoned the life of the mind, as his discourse against the French Revolution attests. Burke and Adams had their similar views on events because they each saw man as disposed to selfishness, requiring public institutions to which civic allegiance is owed to restrain those ignoble instincts so that the virtuous side of people would have a chance to flourish. It was, oddly, an optimism based on a pessimistic estimate of human nature."

-David H. Burton

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