Reflections on the Revolution in FrancePenguin UK, 1982 M09 30 - 416 páginas Burke'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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... beginning, just after the fall of the Bastille, events which seemed to so many a new dawn of liberty aroused Burke's forebodings, without however yet drawing down a general condemnation. 'As to us here', he wrote to Lord Charlemont on 9 ...
... beginning, just after the fall of the Bastille, events which seemed to so many a new dawn of liberty aroused Burke's forebodings, without however yet drawing down a general condemnation. 'As to us here', he wrote to Lord Charlemont on 9 ...
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... beginning of the Revolution to his death could Burke have given the reassurance sought by his young correspondent, but his original reply* is far removed in tone and character from the fierce polemic of the Reflections. He emphasizes ...
... beginning of the Revolution to his death could Burke have given the reassurance sought by his young correspondent, but his original reply* is far removed in tone and character from the fierce polemic of the Reflections. He emphasizes ...
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... beginning at the service of men of rank and property. He remained faithful, without servility, to the party he had chosen. His writings on American affairs were not revolutionary; they were, rather, an attempt to prevent the development ...
... beginning at the service of men of rank and property. He remained faithful, without servility, to the party he had chosen. His writings on American affairs were not revolutionary; they were, rather, an attempt to prevent the development ...
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... beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand. Even allowing for Burke's unusual gifts of political foresight, an attack on the French Revolution cannot have looked, in the first half of 1790, like a ...
... beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand. Even allowing for Burke's unusual gifts of political foresight, an attack on the French Revolution cannot have looked, in the first half of 1790, like a ...
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... beginning a thing imaginable. This goes some way to explain the alertness and promptitude of Burke's response, the fact that he was the first man of importance in England to descry and denounce a danger which within a few years agitated ...
... beginning a thing imaginable. This goes some way to explain the alertness and promptitude of Burke's response, the fact that he was the first man of importance in England to descry and denounce a danger which within a few years agitated ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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