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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He was elected MP for Wendover and his oratory gained him influence in the Whig party, although he was not to hold office until the downfall of the Tory party, under Lord North, in 1783. His championship of the then unpopular causes of ...
He was elected MP for Wendover and his oratory gained him influence in the Whig party, although he was not to hold office until the downfall of the Tory party, under Lord North, in 1783. His championship of the then unpopular causes of ...
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'As to us here', he wrote to Lord Charlemont on 9 August 1789, * our thoughts of everything at home are suspended, by our astonishment at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators ...
'As to us here', he wrote to Lord Charlemont on 9 August 1789, * our thoughts of everything at home are suspended, by our astonishment at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators ...
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The placid tone of Lord Fitzwilliam's reply† does not suggest that young Burke succeeded in communicating his vision. Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could ...
The placid tone of Lord Fitzwilliam's reply† does not suggest that young Burke succeeded in communicating his vision. Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could ...
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In this tone, he warns the Whig lords that the confiscation of Church property in France – a design to which many were favourably disposed by varying combinations of 'Reformation' and 'Enlightenment' principles – constitutes an actual ...
In this tone, he warns the Whig lords that the confiscation of Church property in France – a design to which many were favourably disposed by varying combinations of 'Reformation' and 'Enlightenment' principles – constitutes an actual ...
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His famous Letter to a Noble Lord (1796) – against the Duke of Bedford, who had opposed the granting of a pension to Burke – is an exercise in irony which impressed Karl Marx, with good reason. Burke's irony is never subtle; ...
His famous Letter to a Noble Lord (1796) – against the Duke of Bedford, who had opposed the granting of a pension to Burke – is an exercise in irony which impressed Karl Marx, with good reason. Burke's irony is never subtle; ...
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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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