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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... exist, except on the principles, which habit rather than nature had persuaded them were necessary to their own particular welfare, and to their own ordinary modes of action.* The revolution which Burke feared is not of course identical ...
... exist, except on the principles, which habit rather than nature had persuaded them were necessary to their own particular welfare, and to their own ordinary modes of action.* The revolution which Burke feared is not of course identical ...
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... 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 great country in which ...
... 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 great country in which ...
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... 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; revolt was in fact imminent in Ireland, and broke out in 1798, the year after Burke's.
... 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; revolt was in fact imminent in Ireland, and broke out in 1798, the year after Burke's.
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... exist, it must finally prevail.* The struggle against the armed doctrine is a 'religious war', † a 'new crusade'‡ It must be waged not merely by armed force abroad but by repression at home; the Judges 'should directly censure the ...
... exist, it must finally prevail.* The struggle against the armed doctrine is a 'religious war', † a 'new crusade'‡ It must be waged not merely by armed force abroad but by repression at home; the Judges 'should directly censure the ...
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... exist not only in the world at large but also within himself. In a letter received while this edition was in proof, Prof. Thomas Copeland wrote, about Burke's father: 'Almost nothing is certain about him. Even his conforming in 1722 ...
... exist not only in the world at large but also within himself. In a letter received while this edition was in proof, Prof. Thomas Copeland wrote, about Burke's father: 'Almost nothing is certain about him. Even his conforming in 1722 ...
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