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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They have begun; and it is high time for those who wish to preserve morem majorum to look about them.' The first phase of Burke's counter-revolutionary activity – the phase of the Reflections – was that of fighting the influence of ...
They have begun; and it is high time for those who wish to preserve morem majorum to look about them.' The first phase of Burke's counter-revolutionary activity – the phase of the Reflections – was that of fighting the influence of ...
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The first is from the Letter to a Noble Lord, and concerns the way the real Parisian revolutionaries look on their English aristocratic sympathizers, like the Duke of Bedford: 'Whatever his Grace may think of himself, they look upon him ...
The first is from the Letter to a Noble Lord, and concerns the way the real Parisian revolutionaries look on their English aristocratic sympathizers, like the Duke of Bedford: 'Whatever his Grace may think of himself, they look upon him ...
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I can look at him, with an easy curiosity, as prisoner within bars in the menagerie of the tower. But if, by habeas corpus or otherwise, he was to come into the lobby of the House of Commons while your door was open, any of you would be ...
I can look at him, with an easy curiosity, as prisoner within bars in the menagerie of the tower. But if, by habeas corpus or otherwise, he was to come into the lobby of the House of Commons while your door was open, any of you would be ...
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to assassinate every citizen whom they suspect to be discontented by their tyranny, and to corrupt the soldiery of every open enemy, must look for no modified hostility. All war, which is not battle will be military execution.
to assassinate every citizen whom they suspect to be discontented by their tyranny, and to corrupt the soldiery of every open enemy, must look for no modified hostility. All war, which is not battle will be military execution.
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Nor, obviously, do we look to Burke for an analysis of the French Revolution. As a result of the opening of archives, and the labour of generations of historians, we know – or can know – more about the French Revolution than even the ...
Nor, obviously, do we look to Burke for an analysis of the French Revolution. As a result of the opening of archives, and the labour of generations of historians, we know – or can know – more about the French Revolution than even the ...
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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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