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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In 1955 he was Counsellor in Paris, and from 1956 until 1960 he was head of the United Nations section and a member of the Irish Delegation to the UN. In 1961 he represented the Secretary-General of the UN in Katanga, and at the end of ...
In 1955 he was Counsellor in Paris, and from 1956 until 1960 he was head of the United Nations section and a member of the Irish Delegation to the UN. In 1961 he represented the Secretary-General of the UN in Katanga, and at the end of ...
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The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. ... On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to his son about ...
The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. ... On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to his son about ...
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The period from the 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 ...
The period from the 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 ...
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Edmund's wife Jane was, like him, the child of a 'mixed marriage'. It is not known where Edmund and she were married, and there is a tradition that it was a Catholic marriage solemnized in Paris.* The 'clan' at whose head Edmund Burke ...
Edmund's wife Jane was, like him, the child of a 'mixed marriage'. It is not known where Edmund and she were married, and there is a tradition that it was a Catholic marriage solemnized in Paris.* The 'clan' at whose head Edmund Burke ...
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The first is from the Letter to a Noble Lord, and concerns the way the real Parisian revolutionaries look on their English aristocratic sympathizers, like the Duke of Bedford: 'Whatever his Grace may think of himself, they look upon him ...
The first is from the Letter to a Noble Lord, and concerns the way the real Parisian revolutionaries look on their English aristocratic sympathizers, like the Duke of Bedford: 'Whatever his Grace may think of himself, they look upon him ...
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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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