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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The spirit of total, radical innovation; the overthrow of all prescriptive rights; the confiscation of property; destruction of the Church, the nobility, the family, tradition, veneration, the ancestors, the nation – this is the ...
The spirit of total, radical innovation; the overthrow of all prescriptive rights; the confiscation of property; destruction of the Church, the nobility, the family, tradition, veneration, the ancestors, the nation – this is the ...
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To an unknown correspondent who – at the height of the Revolution controversy – inquired about his religious beliefs, he replied that having been baptized and educated in the Church of England he had 'seen no cause to abandon that ...
To an unknown correspondent who – at the height of the Revolution controversy – inquired about his religious beliefs, he replied that having been baptized and educated in the Church of England he had 'seen no cause to abandon that ...
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Burke might 'see no cause to abandon' the communion of the Church of England but his family background was such – and his family feeling so strong – that he could not possibly contemplate attacks on the Church of Rome with any of the ...
Burke might 'see no cause to abandon' the communion of the Church of England but his family background was such – and his family feeling so strong – that he could not possibly contemplate attacks on the Church of Rome with any of the ...
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[sic] They would not conjure up the ghosts from the ruins of castles and churches, to tell for what attempt to struggle for the independence of an Irish legislature, and to raise armies of volunteers, without regular commissions from ...
[sic] They would not conjure up the ghosts from the ruins of castles and churches, to tell for what attempt to struggle for the independence of an Irish legislature, and to raise armies of volunteers, without regular commissions from ...
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In this tone, he warns the Whig lords that the confiscation of Church property in France – a design to which many were favourably disposed by varying combinations of 'Reformation' and 'Enlightenment' principles – constitutes an actual ...
In this tone, he warns the Whig lords that the confiscation of Church property in France – a design to which many were favourably disposed by varying combinations of 'Reformation' and 'Enlightenment' principles – constitutes an actual ...
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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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