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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... while ruthlessly suppressing every incipient manifestation of potential revolutionary character in their own countries, one wonders what results such success would have produced in a longer term. Might not the revolutionary forces, ...
... while ruthlessly suppressing every incipient manifestation of potential revolutionary character in their own countries, one wonders what results such success would have produced in a longer term. Might not the revolutionary forces, ...
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But if it should be 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 ...
But if it should be 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 ...
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It was not very long before Burke, and after him many others, were struck by 'inconveniences' of a quite different character. Up to the end of 1789, however, he remains detached, and little moved. 'The affairs both of France and ...
It was not very long before Burke, and after him many others, were struck by 'inconveniences' of a quite different character. Up to the end of 1789, however, he remains detached, and little moved. 'The affairs both of France and ...
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But Burke was not English, although he often wrote and spoke in the 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 ...
But Burke was not English, although he often wrote and spoke in the 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 ...
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And it was Mackintosh, the most acute of Burke's early critics, who first defined – as early as 1791 – the real character of the Reflections: 'It is the manifesto of a counter-revolution...' Mackintosh's observations on Burke's method, ...
And it was Mackintosh, the most acute of Burke's early critics, who first defined – as early as 1791 – the real character of the Reflections: 'It is the manifesto of a counter-revolution...' Mackintosh's observations on Burke's method, ...
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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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