Reflections on the Revolution in FrancePenguin UK, 1982 M09 30 - 416 páginas Burke'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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... letter to which the Reflections are, in form, a reply. 'Son Coeur', he said, a battu pour la première fois au nom de Liberté en vous en entendant parler... Si vous Daignez l'assurer que les françois sont Dignes d'être libres, qu'ils ...
... letter to which the Reflections are, in form, a reply. 'Son Coeur', he said, a battu pour la première fois au nom de Liberté en vous en entendant parler... Si vous Daignez l'assurer que les françois sont Dignes d'être libres, qu'ils ...
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... letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, in Politicks the first of Virtues).... Believe me, Sir, in all changes in the State, Moderation is a Virtue, not only amiable but powerful. It is ...
... letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, in Politicks the first of Virtues).... Believe me, Sir, in all changes in the State, Moderation is a Virtue, not only amiable but powerful. It is ...
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... letter written to an unknown, probably in the latter half of that months‡ seems to register within itself the transition. In that letter he is more philosophical, or teleological, about the situation in France than he is ever to be ...
... letter written to an unknown, probably in the latter half of that months‡ seems to register within itself the transition. In that letter he is more philosophical, or teleological, about the situation in France than he is ever to be ...
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... letters of the second half of 1789 – quoted above – show that his attitude towards the French Revolution was disapproving from the very beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand. Even allowing for ...
... letters of the second half of 1789 – quoted above – show that his attitude towards the French Revolution was disapproving from the very beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand. Even allowing for ...
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... Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death? A question of this type, whether it concerns the living or the dead, cannot be answered with certainty. I should like to offer here a conjectural answer which seems to me to be ...
... Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death? A question of this type, whether it concerns the living or the dead, cannot be answered with certainty. I should like to offer here a conjectural answer which seems to me to be ...
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