Ocupation: Statesman
Life: January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797
Birthday: January 12
Death: July 9
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
source: Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417
topic: Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes, Burned Out, Lava, Burnt Out