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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Merely to pose the question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counterrevolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in considering the relevance of Burke to the ...
Merely to pose the question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counterrevolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in considering the relevance of Burke to the ...
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The interest of this Country requires, perhaps the Interests of mankind require, that she should not be in a position despotically to give the Law to Europe: But I think I see many inconveniences only not to Europe at large, ...
The interest of this Country requires, perhaps the Interests of mankind require, that she should not be in a position despotically to give the Law to Europe: But I think I see many inconveniences only not to Europe at large, ...
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... school-master Shackleton, and his son, to his patron, the Marquess of Rockingham, and in general, in the more attenuated form of 'loyalty' to that section of English society – the Whig oligarchy – whose interests he had served, ...
... school-master Shackleton, and his son, to his patron, the Marquess of Rockingham, and in general, in the more attenuated form of 'loyalty' to that section of English society – the Whig oligarchy – whose interests he had served, ...
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His argument, addressed to the nobility and gentry of England, seeks to persuade these classes that their interests are bound up with Catholicism in Europe, ...
His argument, addressed to the nobility and gentry of England, seeks to persuade these classes that their interests are bound up with Catholicism in Europe, ...
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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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