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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... concerned and generally disapproving spectator, is reflected in Burke's other comments during 1789. The disapproval deepens, however. On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to ...
... concerned and generally disapproving spectator, is reflected in Burke's other comments during 1789. The disapproval deepens, however. On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to ...
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... concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, in Politicks the first of Virtues).... Believe me, Sir, in all changes ...
... concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, in Politicks the first of Virtues).... Believe me, Sir, in all changes ...
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... concern; with the other we are not sufferd to intermeddle with any Effect or any Credit: and after all perhaps the follies of France, by which we are not yet affected may employ ones curiosity more pleasantly, and as usefully, as the ...
... concern; with the other we are not sufferd to intermeddle with any Effect or any Credit: and after all perhaps the follies of France, by which we are not yet affected may employ ones curiosity more pleasantly, and as usefully, as the ...
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... concern is the danger of infection spreading from France to England: That the house must perceive, from his coming forward to mark an expression or two of his best friend, how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the ...
... concern is the danger of infection spreading from France to England: That the house must perceive, from his coming forward to mark an expression or two of his best friend, how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the ...
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... concerned, he makes a unique allowance, if not for a legitimate kind of Jacobinism, at least for a kind rooted in human nature; the two categories are, in Burke's mind, very close together. 'That Jacobinism,' he wrote to Hussey, which ...
... concerned, he makes a unique allowance, if not for a legitimate kind of Jacobinism, at least for a kind rooted in human nature; the two categories are, in Burke's mind, very close together. 'That Jacobinism,' he wrote to Hussey, which ...
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