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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... idea.'* The amount of added emphasis, unusual in Burke, is, I think, proportionate to the strength of his feelings on this theme. (See Reflection p. 315, the passage ending 'so many little images of the great country in which the heart ...
... idea.'* The amount of added emphasis, unusual in Burke, is, I think, proportionate to the strength of his feelings on this theme. (See Reflection p. 315, the passage ending 'so many little images of the great country in which the heart ...
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... ideas in England itself. 6. The established order in Ireland was the Protestant ascendancy, the legalized supremacy of the Protestant minority over the Catholic majority. This supremacy rested on the revolutionary settlement of 1688 ...
... ideas in England itself. 6. The established order in Ireland was the Protestant ascendancy, the legalized supremacy of the Protestant minority over the Catholic majority. This supremacy rested on the revolutionary settlement of 1688 ...
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... ideas – not separate compartments either – of the man who writes to Sir Hercules Langrishe about Ireland are identical with those of the man who writes to M. de Pont about France. The tendency to miss the significance of Burke's Irish ...
... ideas – not separate compartments either – of the man who writes to Sir Hercules Langrishe about Ireland are identical with those of the man who writes to M. de Pont about France. The tendency to miss the significance of Burke's Irish ...
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... idea of the different conduct to be held with regard to the very same evil at an immense distance, and when it is at your door?... I can contemplate, without dread, a royal or a national tiger on the borders of PEGU. I can look at him ...
... idea of the different conduct to be held with regard to the very same evil at an immense distance, and when it is at your door?... I can contemplate, without dread, a royal or a national tiger on the borders of PEGU. I can look at him ...
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... idea, but was dismayed by the apparent inertia of the French nobility in this domain, compared with the activity of their opponents. '... The Emissaries of the Usurpation here are exceedingly active in propagating Stories which tend to ...
... idea, but was dismayed by the apparent inertia of the French nobility in this domain, compared with the activity of their opponents. '... The Emissaries of the Usurpation here are exceedingly active in propagating Stories which tend to ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
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