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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In this phase he did not see the danger mainly in France itself, but in the kind of thinking which had in his view produced the events in France, and in the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of.
In this phase he did not see the danger mainly in France itself, but in the kind of thinking which had in his view produced the events in France, and in the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of.
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the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of thinking into England. The danger came home to him on his reading of Dr Price's sermon and the Revolution Society's correspondence with the National Assembly.
the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of thinking into England. The danger came home to him on his reading of Dr Price's sermon and the Revolution Society's correspondence with the National Assembly.
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... of that sublime abstract, metaphysic reversionary, contingent humanity, which in cold blood can subject the present time and those whom we daily see and converse with to immediate calamities in favour of the future and uncertain ...
... of that sublime abstract, metaphysic reversionary, contingent humanity, which in cold blood can subject the present time and those whom we daily see and converse with to immediate calamities in favour of the future and uncertain ...
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It is clear, I think, that had the Dissenting influence been used in favour of the Whigs, instead of against them, in 1784, his reaction to the language of Price, Palmer, Robinson and the others would have been likely to be more ...
It is clear, I think, that had the Dissenting influence been used in favour of the Whigs, instead of against them, in 1784, his reaction to the language of Price, Palmer, Robinson and the others would have been likely to be more ...
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... which might be 'useful hereafter in any Systematick proceeding towards disposing the publick in this Country in your favour which I wish some French Gentlemen here would undertake under the direction of some judicious English.
... which might be 'useful hereafter in any Systematick proceeding towards disposing the publick in this Country in your favour which I wish some French Gentlemen here would undertake under the direction of some judicious English.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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