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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The country which was the fulcrum of counterrevolution in his day – the country whose Empress he praised† was to become for our time that nucleus of revolutionary infection which France was for his. We have lived to see Russia itself, ...
The country which was the fulcrum of counterrevolution in his day – the country whose Empress he praised† was to become for our time that nucleus of revolutionary infection which France was for his. We have lived to see Russia itself, ...
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Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for Freedom else it becomes noxious to themselves and a perfect nuisance to every body else. The same attitude, that of a concerned and generally disapproving spectator, ...
Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for Freedom else it becomes noxious to themselves and a perfect nuisance to every body else. The same attitude, that of a concerned and generally disapproving spectator, ...
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Then, after some scathing remarks about Voltaire and Rousseau, he strikes a new note of concern: 'I see some people here are willing that we should become their scholars and reform our state on the French model.
Then, after some scathing remarks about Voltaire and Rousseau, he strikes a new note of concern: 'I see some people here are willing that we should become their scholars and reform our state on the French model.
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However plausible it may have seemed to contemporary and other opponents – and the debate round the Reflections has remained so live that opponents have always had a tendency to become contemporary – the charge that Burke turned against ...
However plausible it may have seemed to contemporary and other opponents – and the debate round the Reflections has remained so live that opponents have always had a tendency to become contemporary – the charge that Burke turned against ...
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The recent settlers were, in general, militant in their Protestantism, which they associated with their title to their lands and their dominant position in society. Those of the older stock who had become Protestant were always suspect ...
The recent settlers were, in general, militant in their Protestantism, which they associated with their title to their lands and their dominant position in society. Those of the older stock who had become Protestant were always suspect ...
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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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