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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The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true this may be no more than a sudden explosion.... But if it should be character rather than accident, ...
The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true this may be no more than a sudden explosion.... But if it should be character rather than accident, ...
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Burke in his writings on the French Revolution has three basic manners, which he can also combine in varying proportions. There is what one might call the Whig manner: rational, perspicacious, businesslike. This had been the prevailing ...
Burke in his writings on the French Revolution has three basic manners, which he can also combine in varying proportions. There is what one might call the Whig manner: rational, perspicacious, businesslike. This had been the prevailing ...
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Burke's second manner might be called 'Jacobite' : both Gothic and pathetic. The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have been taught to think of as ...
Burke's second manner might be called 'Jacobite' : both Gothic and pathetic. The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have been taught to think of as ...
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Of the three manners which we have distinguished – the 'Whig', the 'Jacobite' and the ironic – only the first is found in relative abundance in the pure state; it forms the staple of the Reflections. The 'Jacobite' manner, in its pure ...
Of the three manners which we have distinguished – the 'Whig', the 'Jacobite' and the ironic – only the first is found in relative abundance in the pure state; it forms the staple of the Reflections. The 'Jacobite' manner, in its pure ...
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In many of the most striking passages in the Reflections Burke uses a manner intermediate between the 'Whig' and the 'Jacobite' – more elevated than the first, and less theatrical than the second – a manner both earnest and stately, ...
In many of the most striking passages in the Reflections Burke uses a manner intermediate between the 'Whig' and the 'Jacobite' – more elevated than the first, and less theatrical than the second – a manner both earnest and stately, ...
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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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