Reflections on the Revolution in FranceBurke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric. |
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... and sought with eloquence and skill to check in England. The spirit of total, radical innovation; the overthrow of all prescriptive rights; the confiscation of property; destruction of the Church, the nobility, the family, ...
... and sought with eloquence and skill to check in England. The spirit of total, radical innovation; the overthrow of all prescriptive rights; the confiscation of property; destruction of the Church, the nobility, the family, ...
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... at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators and what actors. England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud!
... at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators and what actors. England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud!
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'The affairs both of France and England', he writes to his friend Philip Francis in December, are rendered little more to us than a matter of Curiosity; with the one our Duty gives us no concern; with the other we are not sufferd to ...
'The affairs both of France and England', he writes to his friend Philip Francis in December, are rendered little more to us than a matter of Curiosity; with the one our Duty gives us no concern; with the other we are not sufferd to ...
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the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of thinking into England. The danger came home to him on his reading of Dr Price's sermon and the Revolution Society's correspondence with the National Assembly.
the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of thinking into England. The danger came home to him on his reading of Dr Price's sermon and the Revolution Society's correspondence with the National Assembly.
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| Título | Reflections on the Revolution in France Penguin English library |
| Autor | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Conor O'Brien |
| Editor | Penguin UK, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0141907886, 9780141907888 |
| Largo | 416 páginas |
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