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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'As to France,' he writes to Earl Fitzwilliam about the time when he must have been composing the reply to de Pont, if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes ...
'As to France,' he writes to Earl Fitzwilliam about the time when he must have been composing the reply to de Pont, if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes ...
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The interest of this Country requires, perhaps the Interests of mankind require, that she should not be in a position despotically to give the Law to Europe: But I think I see many inconveniences only not to Europe at large, ...
The interest of this Country requires, perhaps the Interests of mankind require, that she should not be in a position despotically to give the Law to Europe: But I think I see many inconveniences only not to Europe at large, ...
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... the first to be conscious of a need for organized effort, adequately financed, and reinforced by 'State action', † to mould public opinion on questions of ideology and international policy. He was the first also to give a lead in such.
... the first to be conscious of a need for organized effort, adequately financed, and reinforced by 'State action', † to mould public opinion on questions of ideology and international policy. He was the first also to give a lead in such.
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was the first also to give a lead in such an effort. ‡ His originality of course should not be exaggerated: since the Reformation and Counter-reformation all Western Europe had rung with propaganda; the eighteenth century was the heyday ...
was the first also to give a lead in such an effort. ‡ His originality of course should not be exaggerated: since the Reformation and Counter-reformation all Western Europe had rung with propaganda; the eighteenth century was the heyday ...
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Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, and when his mind was occupied with quite different matters, he had written to a colleague in Opposition, suggesting that if the Opposition did not intend to give up altogether, ...
Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, and when his mind was occupied with quite different matters, he had written to a colleague in Opposition, suggesting that if the Opposition did not intend to give up altogether, ...
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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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