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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Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, ...
Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, ...
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... of persons who only exist in idea.'* The amount of added emphasis, unusual in Burke, is, I think, proportionate to the strength of his feelings on this theme. (See Reflection p. 315, the passage ending 'so many little images of the ...
... of persons who only exist in idea.'* The amount of added emphasis, unusual in Burke, is, I think, proportionate to the strength of his feelings on this theme. (See Reflection p. 315, the passage ending 'so many little images of the ...
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Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist...' An Irishman could not be so sceptical, or so placid; ...
Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist...' An Irishman could not be so sceptical, or so placid; ...
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... and of enthusiasm, in every country. To us it is a Colossus which bestrides our channel. It has one foot on a foreign shore, the other upon the British soil. Thus advantaged, if it can at all exist, it must finally prevail.
... and of enthusiasm, in every country. To us it is a Colossus which bestrides our channel. It has one foot on a foreign shore, the other upon the British soil. Thus advantaged, if it can at all exist, it must finally prevail.
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Unlike them he has reason to know how a revolutionary might feel; for him the forces of revolution and counter-revolution exist not only in the world at large but also within himself. In a letter received while this edition was in proof ...
Unlike them he has reason to know how a revolutionary might feel; for him the forces of revolution and counter-revolution exist not only in the world at large but also within himself. In a letter received while this edition was in proof ...
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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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