Reflections on the Revolution in FrancePenguin UK, 1982 M09 30 - 416 páginas Burke'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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... never known an equivalent of the French Revolution. 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 ...
... never known an equivalent of the French Revolution. 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 ...
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... Never wholly separate 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 ...
... Never wholly separate 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 ...
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... revolutionary; they were, rather, an attempt to prevent the development and exacerbation of a revolutionary situation. It is true that he never condemned the American Revolution, as he did the French, but then the secession of a.
... revolutionary; they were, rather, an attempt to prevent the development and exacerbation of a revolutionary situation. It is true that he never condemned the American Revolution, as he did the French, but then the secession of a.
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... never have been publicly debated at all.* What saved his reputation was the progress of the Revolution in the direction he had foretold. In the debate in which Burke committed himself – in February 1790 – Pitt himself spoke about the ...
... never have been publicly debated at all.* What saved his reputation was the progress of the Revolution in the direction he had foretold. In the debate in which Burke committed himself – in February 1790 – Pitt himself spoke about the ...
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... never a case of his following a Government line, but rather of his reproaching the Government for its pragmatic attitude and lack of counter-revolutionary zeal. 4. 'What I most envy Burke for', said Dr Johnson, 'is, his being constantly ...
... never a case of his following a Government line, but rather of his reproaching the Government for its pragmatic attitude and lack of counter-revolutionary zeal. 4. 'What I most envy Burke for', said Dr Johnson, 'is, his being constantly ...
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