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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I expect to hear of his dismissing the Regiment he has called to his aid, for drinking his health... and that he has chosen a corps of Paris Amazons for his Body Guard. (Corr. VI, pp. 29–30.) On 4 November Chames-Jean-François de Pont, ...
I expect to hear of his dismissing the Regiment he has called to his aid, for drinking his health... and that he has chosen a corps of Paris Amazons for his Body Guard. (Corr. VI, pp. 29–30.) On 4 November Chames-Jean-François de Pont, ...
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Burke's second manner might be called 'Jacobite' : both Gothic and pathetic. The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have been taught to think of as ...
Burke's second manner might be called 'Jacobite' : both Gothic and pathetic. The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have been taught to think of as ...
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This assertion of authority is likely to be called 'aid' rather than imperialism but it does contain the essence of imperial rule: the final say is not with a native authority but with a foreign one. If counter revolution required ...
This assertion of authority is likely to be called 'aid' rather than imperialism but it does contain the essence of imperial rule: the final say is not with a native authority but with a foreign one. If counter revolution required ...
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This is the meaning of the famous 'counterrevolution in Burke scholarship' which seeks to extricate the counterrevolutionary champion from what Mr Peter J. Stanlis has called 'the great Serbonian bog of positivist scholarship on Burke'.
This is the meaning of the famous 'counterrevolution in Burke scholarship' which seeks to extricate the counterrevolutionary champion from what Mr Peter J. Stanlis has called 'the great Serbonian bog of positivist scholarship on Burke'.
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called 'the great Serbonian bog of positivist scholarship on Burke'. That is to say that the complex Burke whom nineteenth-century Britain knew, the writer who could inspire Gladstone and frighten the Duke of Argyll, is repudiated in ...
called 'the great Serbonian bog of positivist scholarship on Burke'. That is to say that the complex Burke whom nineteenth-century Britain knew, the writer who could inspire Gladstone and frighten the Duke of Argyll, is repudiated in ...
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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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