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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France, itself, and those other Western countries most exposed to the Enlightenment, and – like Britain and the United States – least resistant to those principles of political democracy which Burke abhorred, are not among the most ...
France, itself, and those other Western countries most exposed to the Enlightenment, and – like Britain and the United States – least resistant to those principles of political democracy which Burke abhorred, are not among the most ...
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... how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least countenance in England, where he was sure some wicked persons had shewn a strong disposition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform.
... how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least countenance in England, where he was sure some wicked persons had shewn a strong disposition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform.
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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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first sight to be an integral defence of the established order – constatute in one of their aspects – and this to Burke not the least important – a heavy blow against the established order in the country of Burke's birth, ...
first sight to be an integral defence of the established order – constatute in one of their aspects – and this to Burke not the least important – a heavy blow against the established order in the country of Burke's birth, ...
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In fact there is nothing 'Anglo' at all about what we know of his family connexions and he himself – at least in the late writings with which we are here concerned – eschews the designation 'Protestant'. Finally, some who have been ...
In fact there is nothing 'Anglo' at all about what we know of his family connexions and he himself – at least in the late writings with which we are here concerned – eschews the designation 'Protestant'. Finally, some who have been ...
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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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