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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_28508" /> == | |||
<p> a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Virginia, Jan. 13, 1770. He was converted when about twenty, and soon, after began his ministry. He was sent to [[Kentucky]] as a: pioneer in 1790, where he endured privations and faced dangers that baffle description, with the fortitude and bravery of a martyr, sacrificing; one of the best constitutions ever given to man. Thousands were brought to | <p> a minister in the [[Methodist]] Episcopal Church, South, was born in Virginia, Jan. 13, 1770. He was converted when about twenty, and soon, after began his ministry. He was sent to [[Kentucky]] as a: pioneer in 1790, where he endured privations and faced dangers that baffle description, with the fortitude and bravery of a martyr, sacrificing; one of the best constitutions ever given to man. [[Thousands]] were brought to Christ by his unflagging zeal and devotion. He departed this life in the triumphs of faith, Dec. 4, 185.. Mr. Burke was an intellectual giant, thoroughly consecrated. The people where he labored vied with each other in doing him honor. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1856, p. 655, </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_69847" /> == | |||
<p> A notorious murderer, native of Ireland; executed in 1828 for wholesale murders of people in [[Edinburgh]] by suffocation, after intoxicating them with drink, whose bodies he sold for dissection to an Edinburgh anatomist of the name of Knox, whom the citizens mobbed; he had an accomplice as bad as himself, who, becoming informer, got off. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_28508"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/burke,+william William Burke from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_28508"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/burke,+william William Burke from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_69847"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/burke,+william William Burke from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Virginia, Jan. 13, 1770. He was converted when about twenty, and soon, after began his ministry. He was sent to Kentucky as a: pioneer in 1790, where he endured privations and faced dangers that baffle description, with the fortitude and bravery of a martyr, sacrificing; one of the best constitutions ever given to man. Thousands were brought to Christ by his unflagging zeal and devotion. He departed this life in the triumphs of faith, Dec. 4, 185.. Mr. Burke was an intellectual giant, thoroughly consecrated. The people where he labored vied with each other in doing him honor. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1856, p. 655,
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A notorious murderer, native of Ireland; executed in 1828 for wholesale murders of people in Edinburgh by suffocation, after intoxicating them with drink, whose bodies he sold for dissection to an Edinburgh anatomist of the name of Knox, whom the citizens mobbed; he had an accomplice as bad as himself, who, becoming informer, got off.
