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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His championship of the then unpopular causes of Catholic emancipation and the relaxation of the Irish Trade Laws cost him his seat at Bristol and he was subsequently elected MP for Malton in 1781. Burke became paymaster of the forces ...
His championship of the then unpopular causes of Catholic emancipation and the relaxation of the Irish Trade Laws cost him his seat at Bristol and he was subsequently elected MP for Malton in 1781. Burke became paymaster of the forces ...
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'As to France,' he writes to Earl Fitzwilliam about the time when he must have been composing the reply to de Pont, if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes ...
'As to France,' he writes to Earl Fitzwilliam about the time when he must have been composing the reply to de Pont, if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes ...
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3 The early, though not immediate success of the Reflections with the propertied classes – amid the growing alarm caused by the progress of the Revolution – and its effect in restoring Burke to royal favour† and in earning him a ...
3 The early, though not immediate success of the Reflections with the propertied classes – amid the growing alarm caused by the progress of the Revolution – and its effect in restoring Burke to royal favour† and in earning him a ...
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How else explain the defection from the cause of liberty of the man who had, as was claimed, championed the cause of the American Revolution? The charge was rendered plausible by Burke's complicated financial situation, ...
How else explain the defection from the cause of liberty of the man who had, as was claimed, championed the cause of the American Revolution? The charge was rendered plausible by Burke's complicated financial situation, ...
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... to annihilate, without cause, all the Corporate privileges in the Kingdom and totally to destroy this Constitution. It is not their fault that I am in a situation to be asked by them or by anybody else, for my poor Vote.
... to annihilate, without cause, all the Corporate privileges in the Kingdom and totally to destroy this Constitution. It is not their fault that I am in a situation to be asked by them or by anybody else, for my poor Vote.
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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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