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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... Trade Laws cost him his seat at Bristol and he was subsequently elected MP for Malton in 1781. Burke became paymaster of the forces in 1782, resigned with Fox, and returned to the same office under the coalition government in 1783.
... Trade Laws cost him his seat at Bristol and he was subsequently elected MP for Malton in 1781. Burke became paymaster of the forces in 1782, resigned with Fox, and returned to the same office under the coalition government in 1783.
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We have lived to see Russia itself, through its revolutionary gains, cease to be a revolutionary force, superseded by a power which had clung even longer than Russia to the ancestral ways, which had furnished the supreme example in the ...
We have lived to see Russia itself, through its revolutionary gains, cease to be a revolutionary force, superseded by a power which had clung even longer than Russia to the ancestral ways, which had furnished the supreme example in the ...
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Might not the revolutionary forces, not so much suppressed as compressed, have burst out at a later date, with far greater violence, under more disciplined, consistent and determined leadership; and with even more radical effects on the ...
Might not the revolutionary forces, not so much suppressed as compressed, have burst out at a later date, with far greater violence, under more disciplined, consistent and determined leadership; and with even more radical effects on the ...
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But Burke's specific political resentments against the Dissenters, joined to the frustration of his later years in Parliament, had the effect of setting free the deeper forces of his being. Had Rockingham lived, had he and his friends ...
But Burke's specific political resentments against the Dissenters, joined to the frustration of his later years in Parliament, had the effect of setting free the deeper forces of his being. Had Rockingham lived, had he and his friends ...
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Whence, then, comes the tremendous emotional force that animates not only the misleadingly named Reflections but all his writings on the Revolution, up to and including the fourth Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death ...
Whence, then, comes the tremendous emotional force that animates not only the misleadingly named Reflections but all his writings on the Revolution, up to and including the fourth Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death ...
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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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