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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... England www.penguin.com First published 1790 Published in Pelican Books 1968 Reprinted in Penguin English Library 1982 Reprinted in Penguin Classics 1986 Reissued with updated Introduction and Bibliographical Note and new Curriculum ...
... England www.penguin.com First published 1790 Published in Pelican Books 1968 Reprinted in Penguin English Library 1982 Reprinted in Penguin Classics 1986 Reissued with updated Introduction and Bibliographical Note and new Curriculum ...
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... transfer of the king to Paris (October 1789) to his attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the English example; ...
... transfer of the king to Paris (October 1789) to his attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the English example; ...
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Burke's family affections were – in the eyes of some English contemporaries – excessive, in that they went out not merely to his immediate family – his wife Jane, his idolized son. Richard, his brother Richard – but also to what a ...
Burke's family affections were – in the eyes of some English contemporaries – excessive, in that they went out not merely to his immediate family – his wife Jane, his idolized son. Richard, his brother Richard – but also to what a ...
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Burke's affection also held, life-long, to his old Quaker school-master Shackleton, and his son, to his patron, the Marquess of Rockingham, and in general, in the more attenuated form of 'loyalty' to that section of English society ...
Burke's affection also held, life-long, to his old Quaker school-master Shackleton, and his son, to his patron, the Marquess of Rockingham, and in general, in the more attenuated form of 'loyalty' to that section of English society ...
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But Burke was not English, although he often wrote and spoke in the character of an Englishman. He was Irish and of old native, not recent settler stock; in the words of a modern biographer, 'Edmund Burke was pure Irish' † This ...
But Burke was not English, although he often wrote and spoke in the character of an Englishman. He was Irish and of old native, not recent settler stock; in the words of a modern biographer, 'Edmund Burke was pure Irish' † This ...
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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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