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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Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, ...
Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, ...
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Believe me, Sir, in all changes in the State, Moderation is a Virtue, not only amiable but powerful. It is a disposing, arranging, conciliating, cementing Virtue... to dare to be fearful when all about you are full of presumption and ...
Believe me, Sir, in all changes in the State, Moderation is a Virtue, not only amiable but powerful. It is a disposing, arranging, conciliating, cementing Virtue... to dare to be fearful when all about you are full of presumption and ...
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I believe, on grounds which will now be set out, that there is a connexion between the tensions of this spanning and the emotional charge, the pathos and fury, of the Reflections. It is entirely natural that it should have been the ...
I believe, on grounds which will now be set out, that there is a connexion between the tensions of this spanning and the emotional charge, the pathos and fury, of the Reflections. It is entirely natural that it should have been the ...
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Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist...' An Irishman could not be so sceptical, or so placid; ...
Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist...' An Irishman could not be so sceptical, or so placid; ...
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This is associated, I believe, with another pronounced tendency on the left: that which runs to misunderstanding and underestimating the forces opposed to it. In fact the left should devote to the Reflections.
This is associated, I believe, with another pronounced tendency on the left: that which runs to misunderstanding and underestimating the forces opposed to it. In fact the left should devote to the Reflections.
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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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