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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In this phase he did not see the danger mainly in France itself, but in the kind of thinking which had in his view produced the events in France, and in the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of.
In this phase he did not see the danger mainly in France itself, but in the kind of thinking which had in his view produced the events in France, and in the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of.
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the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of thinking into England. The danger came home to him on his reading of Dr Price's sermon and the Revolution Society's correspondence with the National Assembly.
the men who favoured the introduction of this kind of thinking into England. The danger came home to him on his reading of Dr Price's sermon and the Revolution Society's correspondence with the National Assembly.
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To most Englishmen of the day, whether Dissenters or not, these words must have sounded quite proper, used as they were in a context which necessarily implied that the 'superstition and error' were of the Romish kind.
To most Englishmen of the day, whether Dissenters or not, these words must have sounded quite proper, used as they were in a context which necessarily implied that the 'superstition and error' were of the Romish kind.
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Yet, where the Irish Catholics were concerned, he makes a unique allowance, if not for a legitimate kind of Jacobinism, at least for a kind rooted in human nature; the two categories are, in Burke's mind, very close together.
Yet, where the Irish Catholics were concerned, he makes a unique allowance, if not for a legitimate kind of Jacobinism, at least for a kind rooted in human nature; the two categories are, in Burke's mind, very close together.
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... lest it should ever be considered in England as the policy of a state, to seek a resource in confiscations of any kind; or that any one description of citizens should be brought to regard any of the others, as their proper prey.
... lest it should ever be considered in England as the policy of a state, to seek a resource in confiscations of any kind; or that any one description of citizens should be brought to regard any of the others, as their proper prey.
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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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