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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On 4 November Chames-Jean-François de Pont, the 'very young gentleman at Paris' of the prefatory page of the Reflections, wrote to Burke that letter to which the Reflections are, in form, a reply. 'Son Coeur', he said, a battu pour la ...
On 4 November Chames-Jean-François de Pont, the 'very young gentleman at Paris' of the prefatory page of the Reflections, wrote to Burke that letter to which the Reflections are, in form, a reply. 'Son Coeur', he said, a battu pour la ...
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The 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.
The 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.
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In that letter he is more philosophical, or teleological, about the situation in France than he is ever to be again: 'Man is a gregarious animal. He will by degrees provide some convenience suitable to this his natural disposition; ...
In that letter he is more philosophical, or teleological, about the situation in France than he is ever to be again: 'Man is a gregarious animal. He will by degrees provide some convenience suitable to this his natural disposition; ...
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Burke's 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.
Burke's 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.
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Whence, then, comes the tremendous emotional force that animates not only the misleadingly named Reflections but all his writings on the Revolution, up to and including the fourth Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death ...
Whence, then, comes the tremendous emotional force that animates not only the misleadingly named Reflections but all his writings on the Revolution, up to and including the fourth Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death ...
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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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