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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From the very 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 ...
From the very 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 ...
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At no time from the 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 ...
At no time from the 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 ...
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As it was, born in Dublin in 1729, he placed his ability from the 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 ...
As it was, born in Dublin in 1729, he placed his ability from the 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 ...
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Burke's letters of the second half of 1789 – quoted above – show that his attitude towards the French Revolution was disapproving from the very beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand.
Burke's letters of the second half of 1789 – quoted above – show that his attitude towards the French Revolution was disapproving from the very beginning, even before there was any question of his taking a public stand.
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'Here', for Burke, was not only England but also Ireland, so that revolution for him was from the beginning a thing imaginable. This goes some way to explain the alertness and promptitude of Burke's response, the fact that he was the ...
'Here', for Burke, was not only England but also Ireland, so that revolution for him was from the beginning a thing imaginable. This goes some way to explain the alertness and promptitude of Burke's response, the fact that he was the ...
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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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