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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Not 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 ...
Not 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 ...
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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, single-handed, ...
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, single-handed, ...
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It may not be unnecessary to inform the Reader, that the following Reflections had their origin in a correspondence between the Author and a very young gentleman at Paris, who did him the honour of desiring his opinion upon the ...
It may not be unnecessary to inform the Reader, that the following Reflections had their origin in a correspondence between the Author and a very young gentleman at Paris, who did him the honour of desiring his opinion upon the ...
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In the first letter I had the 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.
In the first letter I had the 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.
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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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