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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... effects on the structure of society? Merely to pose the question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counterrevolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in ...
... effects on the structure of society? Merely to pose the question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counterrevolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in ...
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... 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 depravity of England which is more calculated to give us pain.† It is ...
... 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 depravity of England which is more calculated to give us pain.† It is ...
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... effect in restoring Burke to royal favour† and in earning him a pension* in his retirement naturally led Burke's opponents to suggest that he had – as would now be said – 'sold out', abandoning his real principles for praise and money ...
... effect in restoring Burke to royal favour† and in earning him a pension* in his retirement naturally led Burke's opponents to suggest that he had – as would now be said – 'sold out', abandoning his real principles for praise and money ...
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... effect seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity. A recent writer has summed up the situation just after the publication of the Reflections: Thus Burke had no immediate success either with Government or with Opposition. The ...
... effect seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity. A recent writer has summed up the situation just after the publication of the Reflections: Thus Burke had no immediate success either with Government or with Opposition. The ...
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... effect of setting free the deeper forces of his being. Had Rockingham lived, had he and his friends been in power, had they enjoyed Dissenting support, it is hardly possible that Burke could have written with untrammelled eloquence ...
... effect of setting free the deeper forces of his being. Had Rockingham lived, had he and his friends been in power, had they enjoyed Dissenting support, it is hardly possible that Burke could have written with untrammelled eloquence ...
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