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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At no time from the beginning of the Revolution to his death could Burke have given the reassurance sought by his young correspondent, but his original reply* is far removed in tone and character from the fierce ...
At no time from the beginning of the Revolution to his death could Burke have given the reassurance sought by his young correspondent, but his original reply* is far removed in tone and character from the fierce ...
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... if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes which have given rise to it and which now begin to be unfolded, I should think it a country undone.
... if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes which have given rise to it and which now begin to be unfolded, I should think it a country undone.
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Burke was a passionate man, strong in his resentments as in his affections, and it is not to be supposed that he did not enjoy giving the Dissenters back something of what he considered them to have given him six years before.
Burke was a passionate man, strong in his resentments as in his affections, and it is not to be supposed that he did not enjoy giving the Dissenters back something of what he considered them to have given him six years before.
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This tension was released by the French Revolution, and specifically by the welcome given to that Revolution by Dr Price and his friends. For Price and his friends, by placing the French Revolution in the line of the English one, ...
This tension was released by the French Revolution, and specifically by the welcome given to that Revolution by Dr Price and his friends. For Price and his friends, by placing the French Revolution in the line of the English one, ...
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A radical rationalist seeking to lecture Edmund Burke on the importance of intelligence already stands warned, by the quality of Burke's language, that his lecture will be given every opportunity to sound ridiculous.
A radical rationalist seeking to lecture Edmund Burke on the importance of intelligence already stands warned, by the quality of Burke's language, that his lecture will be given every opportunity to sound ridiculous.
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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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