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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But if it should be character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for ...
But if it should be character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for ...
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I have had lately put into my hands, and but very lately, two extraordinary works,† so sanctiond as to leave no Doubt upon my Mind that a considerable party is formed, and is proceeding systematically, to the destruction of this ...
I have had lately put into my hands, and but very lately, two extraordinary works,† so sanctiond as to leave no Doubt upon my Mind that a considerable party is formed, and is proceeding systematically, to the destruction of this ...
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Yet the Burkian epigram has a particular turn of its own: in his hands this notably cerebral form is directed against intellectual presumption: 'Wisdom is not the most severe corrector of folly'; 'No cold relation is a zealous citizen'; ...
Yet the Burkian epigram has a particular turn of its own: in his hands this notably cerebral form is directed against intellectual presumption: 'Wisdom is not the most severe corrector of folly'; 'No cold relation is a zealous citizen'; ...
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... in spite of all the little defensive precautions which can be employed against them.'† It is a formidable enterprise – to be opposed by armed force – for the subversion of all values: We now have our arms in our hands; we have.
... in spite of all the little defensive precautions which can be employed against them.'† It is a formidable enterprise – to be opposed by armed force – for the subversion of all values: We now have our arms in our hands; we have.
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We now have our arms in our hands; we have the means of opposing the sense, the courage and the resources of England to the deepest, the most craftily devised, the best combined and the most extensive design that ever was carried on, ...
We now have our arms in our hands; we have the means of opposing the sense, the courage and the resources of England to the deepest, the most craftily devised, the best combined and the most extensive design that ever was carried on, ...
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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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