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In the mid 1760s Burke definitively opted to embark on a political career. Before that time he hesitated between the world of letters and public affairs. Although he trained for the legal profession in the early 1750s, he soon registered his ambition to succeed in the field of writing. His literary exploits were conspicuously diverse, covering social commentary, philosophy and history. This resulted in a curious range of publications clustered around the middle of the decade: a satire on the political and religious ideas of Bolingbroke, the Vindication of Natural Society, in 1756; an anatomy of aesthetic sensibility, the Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, in 1757; a jointly authored work on Europe’s trans-Atlantic colonies, the Account of the European Settlements in America, in the same year; and an uncompleted narrative of the national past down to Magna Carta, the Essay towards an Abridgement of English History, that was initiated in 1757 but was still being revised in 1762. From 1758, Burke supplemented this activity by compiling The Annual Register, an overview of the year in politics and the arts. Then, in 1759, he accepted the post of assistant to William Gerard Hamilton. His literary output suffered under the pressures of the engagement and he decided to break with his patron at the start of 1765. When he accepted the role of secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham that same year, he resolved to channel his talents into the service of public business. Altogether, for fifteen years after his arrival in London, Burke’s focus was fragmentary and indeterminate. Nonetheless, it was in this period that he laid down the foundations of his learning, evolved his characteristic intellectual positions, and immersed himself in enlightenment philosophical history.

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