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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... to annihilate, without cause, all the Corporate privileges in the Kingdom and totally to destroy this Constitution. It is not their fault that I am in a situation to be asked by them or by anybody else, for my poor Vote.
... to annihilate, without cause, all the Corporate privileges in the Kingdom and totally to destroy this Constitution. It is not their fault that I am in a situation to be asked by them or by anybody else, for my poor Vote.
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... divided and deranged', he wrote in January 1791, 'but God knows when the things come to be tried, whether the Invaders would not find that this enterprize was not to support a party, – but to conquer a Kingdom.
... divided and deranged', he wrote in January 1791, 'but God knows when the things come to be tried, whether the Invaders would not find that this enterprize was not to support a party, – but to conquer a Kingdom.
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2 I certainly have the honour to belong to more clubs than one, in which the constitution of this kingdom and the principles of the glorious Revolution, are held in high reverence: and I reckon myself among the most forward in my zeal ...
2 I certainly have the honour to belong to more clubs than one, in which the constitution of this kingdom and the principles of the glorious Revolution, are held in high reverence: and I reckon myself among the most forward in my zeal ...
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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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