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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... character in their own countries, one wonders what results such success would have produced in a longer term. Might not the revolutionary forces, not so much suppressed as compressed, have burst out at a later date, with far greater ...
... character in their own countries, one wonders what results such success would have produced in a longer term. Might not the revolutionary forces, not so much suppressed as compressed, have burst out at a later date, with far greater ...
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... character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for Freedom else it ...
... character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for Freedom else it ...
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... character. Up to the end of 1789, however, he remains detached, and little moved. 'The affairs both of France and England', he writes to his friend Philip Francis in December, are rendered little more to us than a matter of Curiosity ...
... character. Up to the end of 1789, however, he remains detached, and little moved. 'The affairs both of France and England', he writes to his friend Philip Francis in December, are rendered little more to us than a matter of Curiosity ...
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... character of an Englishman. He was Irish and of old native, not recent settler stock; in the words of a modern biographer, 'Edmund Burke was pure Irish' † This distinction was, in some ways, more basic than that of formal religious ...
... character of an Englishman. He was Irish and of old native, not recent settler stock; in the words of a modern biographer, 'Edmund Burke was pure Irish' † This distinction was, in some ways, more basic than that of formal religious ...
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... character of the Reflections: 'It is the manifesto of a counter-revolution...' Mackintosh's observations on Burke's method, and his definition of the character of his book, represent Burke as above all a propagandist. Whatever about the ...
... character of the Reflections: 'It is the manifesto of a counter-revolution...' Mackintosh's observations on Burke's method, and his definition of the character of his book, represent Burke as above all a propagandist. Whatever about the ...
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