Reflections on the Revolution in FrancePenguin UK, 1982 M09 30 - 416 páginas Burke'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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... one french Refugee has intelligence or spirit enough to contradict them.'* He urged that the French emigrés should raise money for this purpose: 'If their avarice or their dissipation will afford nothing to their honour or their safety.
... one french Refugee has intelligence or spirit enough to contradict them.'* He urged that the French emigrés should raise money for this purpose: 'If their avarice or their dissipation will afford nothing to their honour or their safety.
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Edmund Burke Conor O'Brien. dissipation will afford nothing to their honour or their safety – their Case is additionally deplorable'† In this, as in much else, Burke was in advance of the time which he was defending: it was left to him ...
Edmund Burke Conor O'Brien. dissipation will afford nothing to their honour or their safety – their Case is additionally deplorable'† In this, as in much else, Burke was in advance of the time which he was defending: it was left to him ...
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... honour of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written some time in the month of October 1789; 'but it was kept back upon ...
... honour of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written some time in the month of October 1789; 'but it was kept back upon ...
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... honour to write to you, and which at length I send, I wrote neither for nor from any description of men; nor shall I in this. My errors, if any, are my own. My reputation alone is to answer for them. You see, Sir, by the long letter I ...
... honour to write to you, and which at length I send, I wrote neither for nor from any description of men; nor shall I in this. My errors, if any, are my own. My reputation alone is to answer for them. You see, Sir, by the long letter I ...
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