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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On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to his son about ... the portentous state of France – where the Elements which compose Human Society seem all to be dissolved, ...
On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to his son about ... the portentous state of France – where the Elements which compose Human Society seem all to be dissolved, ...
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The period from the transfer of the king to Paris (October 1789) to his attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the ...
The period from the transfer of the king to Paris (October 1789) to his attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the ...
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... to tell by what English acts of parliament, forced upon two reluctant kings, the lands of their country were put ... king, against whom both he and the parliament, which he served, and which he betrayed, had both of them rebelled.
... to tell by what English acts of parliament, forced upon two reluctant kings, the lands of their country were put ... king, against whom both he and the parliament, which he served, and which he betrayed, had both of them rebelled.
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'The king has been brought to declare the dauphin shall be educated in a conformity to his situation. If he is made to conform to his situation, he will have no education at all.
'The king has been brought to declare the dauphin shall be educated in a conformity to his situation. If he is made to conform to his situation, he will have no education at all.
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Reading Burke with classes, I have found that undergraduates readily assume that the Reflections occur at a much later stage in the Revolution than is actually the case: that the September Massacres, the execution of the King and Queen, ...
Reading Burke with classes, I have found that undergraduates readily assume that the Reflections occur at a much later stage in the Revolution than is actually the case: that the September Massacres, the execution of the King and Queen, ...
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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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