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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... Evil of the time , ' he wrote to Dr Hussey in December 1796 , ' the growth of Jacobinism , and we were very well assured that from a variety of causes no part of these Countries were more favourable to the growth of that Evil than our ...
... Evil of the time , ' he wrote to Dr Hussey in December 1796 , ' the growth of Jacobinism , and we were very well assured that from a variety of causes no part of these Countries were more favourable to the growth of that Evil than our ...
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... evil at an immense distance , and when it is at your door ? ... I can contemplate , without dread , a royal or a national tiger on the borders of PEGU . I can look at him , with an easy curiosity , as prisoner within bars in the ...
... evil at an immense distance , and when it is at your door ? ... I can contemplate , without dread , a royal or a national tiger on the borders of PEGU . I can look at him , with an easy curiosity , as prisoner within bars in the ...
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... evil : ' Those who have made the exhibition of the 14th day of July are capable of every evil . They do not commit crimes for their designs ; but they form designs that they may commit crimes . It is not their necessity , but their ...
... evil : ' Those who have made the exhibition of the 14th day of July are capable of every evil . They do not commit crimes for their designs ; but they form designs that they may commit crimes . It is not their necessity , but their ...
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... evil doctrine , the armed forces at the disposal of those professing the doctrine , and the sympathizers with the doctrine in other lands constitute one united threat which must be met by force : We are at war with a system , which , by ...
... evil doctrine , the armed forces at the disposal of those professing the doctrine , and the sympathizers with the doctrine in other lands constitute one united threat which must be met by force : We are at war with a system , which , by ...
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