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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Might not the revolutionary forces, not so much suppressed as compressed, have burst out at a later date, with far greater violence, under more disciplined, consistent and determined leadership; and with even more radical effects on the ...
Might not the revolutionary forces, not so much suppressed as compressed, have burst out at a later date, with far greater violence, under more disciplined, consistent and determined leadership; and with even more radical effects on the ...
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... are rendered little more to us than a matter of Curiosity; with the one our Duty gives us no concern; with the other we are not sufferd to intermeddle with any Effect or any Credit: and after all perhaps the follies of France, ...
... are rendered little more to us than a matter of Curiosity; with the one our Duty gives us no concern; with the other we are not sufferd to intermeddle with any Effect or any Credit: and after all perhaps the follies of France, ...
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3 The early, though not immediate success of the Reflections with the propertied classes – amid the growing alarm caused by the progress of the Revolution – and its effect in restoring Burke to royal favour† and in earning him a ...
3 The early, though not immediate success of the Reflections with the propertied classes – amid the growing alarm caused by the progress of the Revolution – and its effect in restoring Burke to royal favour† and in earning him a ...
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In this context the vehemence of Burke's attack, while certain to alienate many of Burke's political friends, was not certain to attract new support and in fact its immediate effect seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity.
In this context the vehemence of Burke's attack, while certain to alienate many of Burke's political friends, was not certain to attract new support and in fact its immediate effect seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity.
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But Burke's specific political resentments against the Dissenters, joined to the frustration of his later years in Parliament, had the effect of setting free the deeper forces of his being. Had Rockingham lived, had he and his friends ...
But Burke's specific political resentments against the Dissenters, joined to the frustration of his later years in Parliament, had the effect of setting free the deeper forces of his being. Had Rockingham lived, had he and his friends ...
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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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