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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... that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, except on the principles, which habit rather than nature had persuaded them were necessary to their own particular welfare, ...
... that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, except on the principles, which habit rather than nature had persuaded them were necessary to their own particular welfare, ...
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... proper Englishman – with detachment, complacency or downright approbation. † This emotional disposition in religious matters has surely much to do both with the nature and with the promptness of his response to the events in France.
... proper Englishman – with detachment, complacency or downright approbation. † This emotional disposition in religious matters has surely much to do both with the nature and with the promptness of his response to the events in France.
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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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Whilst you pique nature against you, you do unwisely to trust to duty.'* These are not isolated epiphanies; they have a social significance. Intellectual presumption – or self-confidence – is the morale of the revolutionary, ...
Whilst you pique nature against you, you do unwisely to trust to duty.'* These are not isolated epiphanies; they have a social significance. Intellectual presumption – or self-confidence – is the morale of the revolutionary, ...
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Burke's originality was not in engaging in propaganda, but in thinking seriously about its nature and its power and on how best to use it. He was acutely conscious of the part which the anti-religious and other propaganda of Voltaire ...
Burke's originality was not in engaging in propaganda, but in thinking seriously about its nature and its power and on how best to use it. He was acutely conscious of the part which the anti-religious and other propaganda of Voltaire ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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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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