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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They would not be so fond of titles under Cromwell, who, if he avenged an Irish rebellion against the sovereign authority of the parliament of England, had himself rebelled against the very parliament whose sovereignty he asserted full ...
They would not be so fond of titles under Cromwell, who, if he avenged an Irish rebellion against the sovereign authority of the parliament of England, had himself rebelled against the very parliament whose sovereignty he asserted full ...
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The second passage from the first of the Letters on a Regicide Peace, concerns an argument, used by the advocates of peace with France (in 1796), that an agreement had already been concluded with more disreputable authorities, ...
The second passage from the first of the Letters on a Regicide Peace, concerns an argument, used by the advocates of peace with France (in 1796), that an agreement had already been concluded with more disreputable authorities, ...
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... and the Jacobite within him; this is also the tone in which he can, with the greatest authority, reach that audience for which his words are intended – the landed proprietors of England, and after them men of property generally.
... and the Jacobite within him; this is also the tone in which he can, with the greatest authority, reach that audience for which his words are intended – the landed proprietors of England, and after them men of property generally.
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To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of conferring on his writings a superhuman authority. To challenge Burke's argument is then to fly in the face of nature. And as Burke himself, ...
To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of conferring on his writings a superhuman authority. To challenge Burke's argument is then to fly in the face of nature. And as Burke himself, ...
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The fact that Burke advocated counterrevolutionary war against France does not permit his authority to be legitimately invoked in support of counter-revolutionary war against Russia, China or any other nation today.
The fact that Burke advocated counterrevolutionary war against France does not permit his authority to be legitimately invoked in support of counter-revolutionary war against Russia, China or any other nation today.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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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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