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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'We regarded as the great 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 ...
'We regarded as the great 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 ...
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Have the gentlemen, who borrowed this happy parallel, no idea of the different conduct to be held with regard to the very same evil at an immense distance, and when it is at your door?... I can contemplate, without dread, ...
Have the gentlemen, who borrowed this happy parallel, no idea of the different conduct to be held with regard to the very same evil at an immense distance, and when it is at your door?... I can contemplate, without dread, ...
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For Burke, as for Dulles, the revolutionary doctrine is the expression of incarnate 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 ...
For Burke, as for Dulles, the revolutionary doctrine is the expression of incarnate 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 ...
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The 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, ...
The 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, ...
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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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