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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... in your mind the merits of any Political Question from the Men who are concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a ...
... in your mind the merits of any Political Question from the Men who are concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a ...
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Johnson seems to have had in his mind primarily the equable temperament which was Burke's in his middle years, but a reader of Burke is likely to find the comment applicable in a more general sense to his work, including the Reflections ...
Johnson seems to have had in his mind primarily the equable temperament which was Burke's in his middle years, but a reader of Burke is likely to find the comment applicable in a more general sense to his work, including the Reflections ...
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I have had lately put into my hands, and but very lately, two extraordinary works,† so sanctiond as to leave no Doubt upon my Mind that a considerable party is formed, and is proceeding systematically, to the destruction of this ...
I have had lately put into my hands, and but very lately, two extraordinary works,† so sanctiond as to leave no Doubt upon my Mind that a considerable party is formed, and is proceeding systematically, to the destruction of this ...
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Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist...' An Irishman could not be so sceptical, or so placid; ...
Here, as usual at this time, the Burke mind, haunted by the phantom of revolution, ‡ was baffled by 'those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist...' An Irishman could not be so sceptical, or so placid; ...
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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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| 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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