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80-420: The Grand Lake Theater, designed as a single auditorium theater by Architects Reid & Reid for local businessmen Abraham C. Karski and Louis Kaliski, held its grand opening on March 6, 1926. On August 1, 1929, Abraham C. Karski and Louis Kaliski leased the theater to West Coast Theatres, Inc. for a period of 94 years, 4 months until November 30, 2023. The descendants of Abraham C. Karski and Louis Kaliski owned

160-494: A Mighty Wurlitzer organ hidden beneath the floor. On Friday and Saturday evenings, the historical organ rises for a brief concert before the movie. Most recently, Allen Michaan has spent hundreds of thousands to install twin 3-D projectors in two of the Oakland movie palace's theaters - similar to the state-of-the-art setup Pixar has in its private screening auditorium, and also repainted the building. The Theater's 95-year lease

240-588: A member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party . Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society (1756). He criticised the actions of the British government towards

320-711: A motion to repeal the tea duty : Again and again, revert to your old principles—seek peace and ensue it; leave America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself. I am not here going into the distinctions of rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions; I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it …. Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it …. Do not burthen them with taxes…. But if intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison

400-422: A ward , Edmund Nagle (later Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle ), the son of a maternal cousin orphaned in 1763. At about this same time, Burke was introduced to William Gerard Hamilton (known as "Single-speech Hamilton"). When Hamilton was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland , Burke accompanied him to Dublin as his private secretary , a position he held for three years. In 1765, Burke became private secretary to

480-635: A 20-unit cooperative apartment building in Russian Hill . James moved into the apartment building, living there until he died in 1943. When Merritt died on February 4, 1932, James retired and closed the firm. Edmund Burke Defunct Edmund Burke ( / b ɜːr k / ; 12 January [ NS ] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain. Born in Dublin , Burke served as

560-475: A Late State of the Nation . Surveying the finances of France, Burke predicts "some extraordinary convulsion in that whole system". During the same year, with mostly borrowed money, Burke purchased Gregories, a 600-acre (2.4 km ) estate near Beaconsfield . Although the estate included saleable assets such as art works by Titian , Gregories proved a heavy financial burden in the following decades and Burke

640-591: A Parliamentary debate on the prohibition on the export of grain on 16 November 1770, Burke argued in favour of a free market in corn: "There are no such things as a high, & a low price that is encouraging, & discouraging; there is nothing but a natural price, which grain brings at an universal market". In 1772, Burke was instrumental in the passing of the Repeal of Certain Laws Act 1772 which repealed various old laws against dealers and forestallers in corn. In

720-491: A bill that would have given juries the right to determine what was libel , if passed. Burke spoke in favour of the bill, but it was opposed by some, including Charles James Fox , not becoming law. When introducing his own bill in 1791 in opposition, Fox repeated almost verbatim the text of Burke's bill without acknowledgement. Burke was prominent in securing the right to publish debates held in Parliament. Speaking in

800-693: A child, Burke sometimes spent time away from the unhealthy air of Dublin with his mother's family near Killavullen in the Blackwater Valley in County Cork. He received his early education at a Quaker school in Ballitore , County Kildare, some 67 kilometres (42 mi) from Dublin; and possibly like his cousin Nano Nagle at a Hedge school near Killavullen. He remained in correspondence with his schoolmate from there, Mary Leadbeater ,

880-592: A constant exaggeration to make the ridicule shine through the Imitation. Whereas this Vindication is everywhere enforc'd, not only in the language, and on the principles of L. Bol., but with so apparent, or rather so real an earnestness, that half his purpose is sacrificed to the other". A minority of scholars have taken the position that in fact Burke did write the Vindication in earnest, later disowning it only for political reasons. In 1757, Burke published

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960-419: A dishonest politician. Burke took a leading role in the debate regarding the constitutional limits to the executive authority of the king . He argued strongly against unrestrained royal power and for the role of political parties in maintaining a principled opposition capable of preventing abuses, either by the monarch or by specific factions within the government. His most important publication in this regard

1040-652: A few years there has been a great Change in the National Character. We seem no longer that eager, inquisitive, jealous, fiery people, which we have been formerly." In Burke's view, the British government was fighting "the American English" ("our English Brethren in the Colonies"), with a Germanic king employing " the hireling sword of German boors and vassals " to destroy the English liberties of

1120-666: A persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it .... My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government—they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another, that these two things may exist without any mutual relation—the cement

1200-487: A reference. Burke remained the chief editor of the publication until at least 1789 and there is no evidence that any other writer contributed to it before 1766. On 12 March 1757, Burke married Jane Mary Nugent (1734–1812), daughter of Dr. Christopher Nugent , a Catholic physician who had provided him with medical treatment at Bath . Their son Richard was born on 9 February 1758 while a second son, Christopher (born that December), died in infancy. Burke also helped raise

1280-511: A treatise on aesthetics titled A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful that attracted the attention of prominent Continental thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant . It was his only purely philosophical work, completed in 1753. When asked by Sir Joshua Reynolds and French Laurence to expand it thirty years later, Burke replied that he

1360-542: Is among the "chief Gall or Old English families that assimilated into Gaelic society" (the surname de Burgh (Latinised as de Burgo ) was gaelicised in Irish as de Búrca or Búrc which over the centuries became Burke ). Burke adhered to his father's faith and remained a practising Anglican throughout his life, unlike his sister Juliana, who was brought up as and remained a Roman Catholic. Later, his political enemies repeatedly accused him of having been educated at

1440-400: Is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have;

1520-408: Is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. Burke was not merely presenting a peace agreement to Parliament, but rather he stepped forward with four reasons against using force, carefully reasoned. He laid out his objections in an orderly manner, focusing on one before moving to the next. His first concern was that the use of force would have to be temporary and that

1600-493: Is surmounted by a giant illuminated rooftop sign which was originally furnished by Brumfield Electric Sign Co., Inc. Neoclassical faux columns and urns line the main interior space and the ceiling is adorned with a crystal chandelier in the lobby and classical frescos in the auditorium. The theater's interior artwork is considered to be Art Deco. After purchasing the lease in 1980, Renaissance Rialto, Inc., owned by Allen Michaan, spent millions on renovation and expansion. In 1981,

1680-777: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake , the hotel opened a year later, on April 18, 1907. They also designed the First Congregational Church, the W. & J. Sloane Building, and two Hale Brothers Co. department stores. They also created the third version of Cliff House . They also designed many mansions in the Pacific Heights , although many were lost in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Two surviving houses located at 2083 and 2099 Pacific were built for Spreckels as wedding gifts for his son. Those survive today, along with 1919 Sacramento, 2770 Broadway, and 2646 Vallejo. Another residential project

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1760-700: The American Institute of Architects in 1889. That same year, Merritt moved to San Francisco to open an office, followed shortly by James. Watson remained in San Diego to run that office. In 1891, Watson was joined by William Sterling Hebbard , an architect who had trained in Chicago . In 1892, the Reid Brothers were hired to design the Portland, Oregon newspaper's Oregonian Building. It

1840-598: The American colonies , including its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence. He is remembered for his support for Catholic emancipation , the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company , and his staunch opposition to the French Revolution . In his Reflections on

1920-579: The Annual Register for 1772 (published in July 1773), Burke condemned the partition of Poland . He saw it as "the first very great breach in the modern political system of Europe" and as upsetting the balance of power in Europe. On 3 November 1774, Burke was elected Member for Bristol , at the time "England's second city" with a large constituency in a genuine electoral contest. At the conclusion of

2000-915: The Gothic revival style . Banker Aaron Guard Cloud commissioned two projects with the Reid Brothers: the Cloud State Bank in the Second Empire and French Baroque style and his private home which are both in McLeansboro, Illinois. In 1886, the brothers moved to the San Diego, California with the client Charles T. Hinde to design the Hotel Del Coronado for the Coronado Beach Company. Although

2080-756: The Jesuit College of St. Omer , near Calais , France; and of harbouring secret Catholic sympathies at a time when membership in the Catholic Church would disqualify him from public office per Penal Laws in Ireland . As Burke told Frances Crewe : Mr. Burke's Enemies often endeavoured to convince the World that he had been bred up in the Catholic Faith, & that his Family were of it, & that he himself had been educated at St. Omer—but this

2160-691: The United States Declaration of Independence . Burke was appalled by celebrations in Britain of the defeat of the Americans in New York and Pennsylvania. He claimed the English national character was being changed by this authoritarianism. Burke wrote: "As to the good people of England, they seem to partake every day more and more of the Character of that administration which they have been induced to tolerate. I am satisfied, that within

2240-491: The marquee as a political message board. In outrage at the 2000 presidential election , he posted this message on the high-traffic side of the marquee: "This Is America — Every Vote Should Be Counted" Since then, and with much support from the local community, Michaan has regularly used one side of the theater's marquee to display a timely political message. In addition to films, the theater also occasionally hosts talks and events on progressive political issues. In November 2005,

2320-531: The 19th century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals . Subsequently, in the 20th century, he became widely regarded, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, as the philosophical founder of conservatism , along with his ultra-royalist and ultramontane  counterpart Joseph de Maistre . Burke was born in Dublin , Ireland. His mother Mary, née Nagle,

2400-459: The American conflict peacefully: Had they been passed, though the effect of these resolutions can never be known, they might have quelled the colonials' revolutionary spirit. Unfortunately, Burke delivered this speech less than a month before the explosive conflict at Concord and Lexington . As these resolutions were not enacted, little was done that would help to prevent armed conflict. Among

2480-523: The Bills relative to the Trade of Ireland in which he espoused "some of the chief principles of commerce; such as the advantage of free intercourse between all parts of the same kingdom ... the evils attending restriction and monopoly ... and that the gain of others is not necessarily our loss, but on the contrary an advantage by causing a greater demand for such wares as we have for sale." Burke also supported

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2560-428: The British were ultimately unsuccessful in their attempts to win a war fought on American soil. It was not temporary force, uncertainty, impairment, or even experience that Burke cited as the primary reason for avoiding war with the American colonies. Rather, it was the character of the American people themselves: "In this character of Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes

2640-568: The Coronado Beach Company was not financially successful, the project helped build the West Coast reputation of the Reid Brothers. Their younger brother, Watson Elkinah Reid moved to California and joined the firm around 1888. Watson attended Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick , Canada and worked as a house joiner. He served as the supervising architect for the Hotel Del Coronado . James and Merritt became Fellows of

2720-551: The Elder said he had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a Member. The first great subject Burke addressed was the controversy with the American colonies which soon developed into war and ultimate separation . In reply to the 1769 Grenvillite pamphlet The Present State of the Nation , he published his own pamphlet titled Observations on

2800-629: The Grand Lake Theatre closed its doors in support of the Occupy Oakland general strike. The marquee read "We proudly support the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Closed Wed. to support the strike." The Rachel Maddow Show featured the theater on November 2, 2011, as part of the video segment covering that day's Occupy Oakland protest and general strike. Maddow, a native of nearby Castro Valley , said that

2880-843: The Grand Lake Theatre was one of her favorite landmarks when she was growing up and is still a favorite of hers as an adult today. See the Rachel Maddow Show Nov 2nd transcript for her full statement about the Grand Lake Theatre. More recently, hundreds also gathered outside the Theatre in December 2019 in support of the Impeachment of Donald Trump , which the Theatre's marquee staunchly supported. 37°48′41″N 122°14′51″W  /  37.81145°N 122.24747°W  / 37.81145; -122.24747 Reid %26 Reid Reid & Reid, also known as Reid Brothers,

2960-678: The House of Commons a speech (published in May 1775) on reconciliation with America. Burke appealed for peace as preferable to civil war and reminded the House of Commons of America's growing population, its industry and its wealth. He warned against the notion that the Americans would back down in the face of force since most Americans were of British descent: [T]he people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen.... They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles. The people are Protestants ...

3040-463: The House of Commons to remember that the interest by way of money received from the American colonies was far more attractive than any sense of putting the colonists in their place: The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war, not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations, not peace to arise out of universal discord ... [I]t is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It

3120-630: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They also hired draftsman John Walter Dolliver as a designer; draftsman Emile Schroeder Lemme, and architect Albert L. Farr . Completed in 1897, the Call Building was the tallest building west of Chicago at 315 feet. The top of the Call Building was a four-story dome; there, the Reid Brothers established their new office on the eighteenth floor. The Call Building dominated

3200-689: The Revolution in France (1790), Burke asserted that the revolution was destroying the fabric of "good" society and traditional institutions of state and society, and he condemned the persecution of the Catholic Church that resulted from it. This led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig Party which he dubbed the Old Whigs as opposed to the pro-French Revolution New Whigs led by Charles James Fox . In

3280-472: The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. of San Francisco was removed in 1959, and a larger Wurlitzer was installed in 1980. The original phone number for the theater was Glencourt 3100 and the original ticket prices were 40 cents for night and Sunday matinees in the orchestra and balcony, 50 cents for the loges, 25 cents for daily matinees, and 10 cents for children at any performance. The theater's exterior

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3360-702: The San Diego office and oversaw its work. In addition to the Spreckels Temple of Music , Reid & Reid designed the Caretaker's Cottage at Golden Gate Park. In 1908, they also designed a Stadium at the Polo Fields for Golden Gate Park, but the project ended early in the construction phase. Only a small section of the bleachers was constructed. Reid & Reid was hired to design the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in 1902. Although damaged by

3440-651: The San Francisco skyline and became its "most recognizable" landmark. Spreckels continued to work with Reid & Reid for other projects including the Spreckels Car House, several family mansions, and Spreckels Temple of Music , a music stand that Spreckels donated to Golden Gate Park . In 1892, Watson Reid left the firm and moved back to New Brunswick. Watson Reid was commissioned to build what's known as Victoria Manor, completed in 1893 for Lt. Gov. Abner Reid McClellan. Hebbard then became head of

3520-811: The Study and Use of History was published in 1752 and his collected works appeared in 1754. This provoked Burke into writing his first published work, A Vindication of Natural Society: A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind , appearing in Spring 1756. Burke imitated Bolingbroke's style and ideas in a reductio ad absurdum of his arguments for deistic rationalism in order to demonstrate their absurdity . Burke claimed that Bolingbroke's arguments against revealed religion could apply to all social and civil institutions as well. Lord Chesterfield and Bishop Warburton as well as others initially thought that

3600-587: The Theatre for nearly nine decades, operating it under the original lease terms although assigning it twice (to Mann Theaters Corporation of California (who later became National General Theaters, Inc.) in 1973 and to the current tenant Renaissance Rialto, Inc. in 1980.) After the Grand Lake Theater opened on March 6, 1926, it held vaudeville and silent movie showings, but with the arrival of " talkies " it began to exclusively show sound films. The original Wurlitzer Hope Jones Unified Orchestral Organ by

3680-402: The Theatre served as a center for relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina that Congresswoman Barbara Lee coordinated. Between the midterm elections of November 2006 and January 2007, no political messages were displayed on the marquee, instead devoting the space to the names of upcoming films. Messages began to appear again in early January, beginning with "All that is necessary for

3760-477: The attempts of Sir George Savile to repeal some of the penal laws against Catholics. Burke also called capital punishment "the Butchery which we call justice" in 1776 and in 1780 condemned the use of the pillory for two men convicted for attempting to practice sodomy . This support for unpopular causes, notably free trade with Ireland and Catholic emancipation , led to Burke losing his seat in 1780. For

3840-404: The balcony of the auditorium was split into a second auditorium. In 1985, neighboring storefronts were purchased and attached to the theater. These were transformed into a small Egyptian Revival styled auditorium and a small Moorish styled auditorium. After the expansions of the 1980s, the Grand Lake Theatre had a total of four screens and 1619 seats. The main auditorium is also equipped with

3920-573: The colonists. On American independence , Burke wrote: "I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity." During the Gordon Riots in 1780, Burke became a target of hostility and his home was placed under armed guard by the military. The fall of North led to Rockingham being recalled to power in March 1782. Burke

4000-496: The daughter of the school's owner, throughout his life. In 1744, Burke started at Trinity College Dublin , a Protestant establishment which up until 1793 did not permit Catholics to take degrees . In 1747, he set up a debating society, Edmund Burke's Club, which in 1770 merged with TCD's Historical Club to form the College Historical Society , the oldest undergraduate society in the world. The minutes of

4080-887: The eight children of Lucinda Robinson and William James Reid, a farmer and house joiner . James worked as a house joiner and studied industrial arts at the Lowell School of Practical Design in Boston before attending McGill University in Montreal and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris 1874. before graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . Merritt also graduated from École des Beaux-Arts ., In

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4160-477: The great trading city of Bristol, urged Burke to oppose free trade with Ireland. Burke resisted their protestations and said: "If, from this conduct, I shall forfeit their suffrages at an ensuing election, it will stand on record an example to future representatives of the Commons of England, that one man at least had dared to resist the desires of his constituents when his judgment assured him they were wrong." Burke published Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol on

4240-414: The late 19th–century, James and Merritt immigrated to Evansville, Indiana from and worked at the architectural firm of Boy and Brickley. In 1879, they purchased the contracts from Boyd & Brickley and opened Reid Brothers. One of their early clients was the Terre Haute Railroad which helped develop their reputation. Their most notable work in Evansville is the Willard Library which was executed in

4320-478: The liberal Whig politician Charles, Marquess of Rockingham , then Prime Minister of Great Britain , who remained Burke's close friend and associate until his death in 1782. In December 1765, Burke entered the House of Commons of the British Parliament as Member for Wendover in Buckinghamshire , a pocket borough in the gift of Lord Fermanagh, later 2nd Earl Verney and a close political ally of Rockingham. After Burke delivered his maiden speech , William Pitt

4400-424: The meetings of Burke's Club remain in the collection of the Historical Society. Burke graduated from Trinity in 1748. Burke's father wanted him to read Law and with this in mind, he went to London in 1750, where he entered the Middle Temple , before soon giving up legal study to travel in Continental Europe . After eschewing the Law, he pursued a livelihood through writing. The late Lord Bolingbroke 's Letters on

4480-420: The money they had requested to withdraw from the Treasury into the Bank of England, from where it was to be withdrawn for specific purposes. The Treasury would receive monthly statements of the Paymaster's balance at the Bank. This Act was repealed by Shelburne's administration, but the Act that replaced it repeated verbatim almost the whole text of the Burke Act. The Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782

4560-404: The more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. Burke prized peace with America above all else, pleading with

4640-520: The mountains, but the land they left behind would most likely be unusable, whether by accident or design. The fourth and final reason to avoid the use of force was experience, as the British had never attempted to rein in an unruly colony by force and they did not know if it could be done, let alone accomplished thousands of miles away from home. Not only were all of these concerns reasonable, but some turned out to be prophetic—the American colonists did not surrender, even when things looked extremely bleak and

4720-450: The poll, he made his Speech to the Electors of Bristol at the Conclusion of the Poll , a remarkable disclaimer of the constituent-imperative form of democracy, for which he substituted his statement of the "representative mandate" form. He failed to win re-election for that seat in the subsequent 1780 general election . In May 1778, Burke supported a Parliamentary motion revising restrictions on Irish trade. His constituents, citizens of

4800-404: The reasons this speech was so greatly admired was its passage on Lord Bathurst (1684–1775) in which Burke describes an angel in 1704 prophesying to Bathurst the future greatness of England and also of America: "Young man, There is America—which at this day serves little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, shew itself equal to

4880-399: The remainder of his Parliamentary career, Burke represented Malton , another pocket borough under the Marquess of Rockingham 's patronage. Burke expressed his support for the grievances of the American Thirteen Colonies under the government of King George III and his appointed representatives. On 19 April 1774, Burke made a speech, " On American Taxation " (published in January 1775), on

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4960-445: The triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," a statement derived from Edmund Burke 's 1770 speech to Parliament, "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents." On September 9 and 10, 2009, the fifth 9/11 Film Festival was presented at the Grand Lake Theatre. The theater premiered Dylan Avery 's Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup , narrated by Daniel Sunjata and produced by Korey Rowe and Matthew Brown. On November 2, 2011,

5040-502: The uprisings and objections to British governance in Colonial America would not be. Second, Burke worried about the uncertainty surrounding whether Britain would win a conflict in America. "An armament," Burke said, "is not a victory." Third, Burke brought up the issue of impairment, stating that it would do the British government no good to engage in a scorched earth war and have the object they desired (America) become damaged or even useless. The American colonists could always retreat into

5120-462: The very source of government by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question …. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body of men will be argued into slavery. On 22 March 1775, Burke delivered in

5200-441: The whole ... [T]his fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth ... [The] men [are] acute, inquisitive, dextrous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources." Burke concludes with another plea for peace and a prayer that Britain might avoid actions which in Burke's words "may bring on the destruction of this Empire." Burke proposed six resolutions to settle

5280-463: The whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world." Samuel Johnson was so irritated at hearing it continually praised that he made a parody of it, where the devil appears to a young Whig and predicts that in a short time Whiggism will poison even the paradise of America. The administration of Lord North (1770–1782) tried to defeat the colonist rebellion by military force. British and American forces clashed in 1775 and in 1776 came

5360-481: The work was genuinely by Bolingbroke rather than a satire . All the reviews of the work were positive, with critics especially appreciative of Burke's quality of writing. Some reviewers failed to notice the ironic nature of the book which led to Burke stating in the preface to the second edition (1757) that it was a satire. Richard Hurd believed that Burke's imitation was near-perfect and that this defeated his purpose, arguing that an ironist "should take care by

5440-440: The year following that contract, Burke founded with Dodsley the influential Annual Register , a publication in which various authors evaluated the international political events of the previous year. The extent to which Burke contributed to the Annual Register is unclear. In his biography of Burke, Robert Murray quotes the Register as evidence of Burke's opinions, yet Philip Magnus in his biography does not cite it directly as

5520-481: Was a Roman Catholic who hailed from a County Cork family and a cousin of the Catholic educator Nano Nagle , whereas his father Richard, a successful solicitor, was a member of the Church of Ireland . It remains unclear whether this is the same Richard Burke who converted from Catholicism. The Burgh (Burke) dynasty descends from the Anglo-Norman knight, William de Burgh , who arrived in Ireland in 1185 following Henry II of England 's 1171 invasion of Ireland and

5600-479: Was an American architectural and engineering firm that was active from 1880 to 1932. Established in Indiana by Canadian immigrants, the firm moved to the West Coast and became was the most prominent firm in San Francisco, California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Brothers James William Reid (1851-1943), Merritt Jonathan Reid (1855-1932), and Watson Elkinah Reid (1858–1944) were born in Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick , Canada, three of

5680-496: Was appointed Paymaster of the Forces and a Privy Counsellor , but without a seat in Cabinet. Rockingham's unexpected death in July 1782 and replacement with Shelburne as Prime Minister put an end to his administration after only a few months, but Burke did manage to introduce two Acts. The Paymaster General Act 1782 ended the post as a lucrative sinecure. Previously, Paymasters had been able to draw on money from HM Treasury at their discretion. Instead, now they were required to put

5760-579: Was designed by Theodore Wetteland. The firing sequence is controlled by a device much like a music box. The sign is typically lit Friday and Saturday, from dusk until the start of the last show of the night. Current owner Michaan is known to use his liberal politics as a guide in managing the Grand Lake. In 2004, he publicly announced that the theater would not enforce the R rating of the political documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 . The Grand Lake has also received widespread recognition for Michaan's use of

5840-605: Was false, as his father was a regular practitioner of the Law at Dublin, which he could not be unless of the Established Church: & it so happened that though Mr. B was twice at Paris, he never happened to go through the Town of St. Omer . After being elected to the House of Commons , Burke took the required oath of allegiance and abjuration , the oath of supremacy and the declaration against transubstantiation . As

5920-796: Was his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents of 23 April 1770. Burke identified the "discontents" as stemming from the "secret influence" of a neo-Tory group he labelled as the "king's friends", whose system "comprehending the exterior and interior administrations, is commonly called, in the technical language of the Court, Double Cabinet ". Britain needed a party with "an unshaken adherence to principle, and attachment to connexion, against every allurement of interest". Party divisions, "whether operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government". During 1771, Burke wrote

6000-666: Was never able to repay its purchase price in full. His speeches and writings, having made him famous, led to the suggestion that he was the author of the Letters of Junius . At about this time, Burke joined the circle of leading intellectuals and artists in London of whom Samuel Johnson was the central luminary. This circle also included David Garrick , Oliver Goldsmith and Joshua Reynolds . Edward Gibbon described Burke as "the most eloquent and rational madman that I ever knew". Although Johnson admired Burke's brilliance, he found him

6080-405: Was no longer fit for abstract speculation. On 25 February 1757, Burke signed a contract with Robert Dodsley to write a "history of England from the time of Julius Caesar to the end of the reign of Queen Anne", its length being eighty quarto sheets (640 pages), nearly 400,000 words. It was to be submitted for publication by Christmas 1758. Burke completed the work to the year 1216 and stopped; it

6160-554: Was not published until after Burke's death, in an 1812 collection of his works, An Essay Towards an Abridgement of the English History . G. M. Young did not value Burke's history and claimed that it was "demonstrably a translation from the French". On commenting on the story that Burke stopped his history because David Hume published his, Lord Acton said "it is ever to be regretted that the reverse did not occur". During

6240-663: Was set to expire on November 30, 2023; prior to this, however, longtime tenant Allen Michaan purchased the Grand Lake Theatre in August 2018. On March 16, 2020, the Theatre was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The Theatre reopened on May 27, 2021. The sign mounted on top of the Grand Lake Theatre is the largest rotary contact sign west of the Mississippi River. It measures 52 feet (15.85m) high by 72 feet (21.95m) wide and consists of 2,800 colored bulbs and

6320-1362: Was the Classical Revival Irwin mansion which was located at 2190 Washington. Reid & Reid designed numerous movie theaters in San Francisco, including the Alexandria Theatre, the Balboa Theatre, the Coliseum Theatre, the Metropolitan, and the New Mission Theatre . They also designed the Golden State Theatre in Monterey, the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland , the New Sequoia Theater Building in Redwood City, and Sequoia Theatre in Mill Valley, California In 1929, they designed

6400-417: Was the first steel-frame building west of Chicago. In 1894, Mrs. M. L. Selfridge hired the firm to design six houses on the corner of California and Pierce in San Francisco. Newspaperman Claus Spreckels hired them to design a headquarters for The San Francisco Call in 1895. Architect Charles William Dickey joined the firm's San Francisco office from 1895 to 1896. He was from Oakland but had attended

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