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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... under Marxist leadership, in lands which had 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 ...
... under Marxist leadership, in lands which had 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 ...
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The French may be yet to go through more transmigrations. Burke offers advice not in the taste of this enlighten' d age and indeed... no better than the late ripe fruit of mere experience – Never wholly ...
The French may be yet to go through more transmigrations. Burke offers advice not in the taste of this enlighten' d age and indeed... no better than the late ripe fruit of mere experience – Never wholly ...
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His writings on American affairs were not 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, ...
His writings on American affairs were not 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, ...
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... too far in making public scenes, and breaking friendships, on an issue that need never have been publicly debated at all.* What saved his reputation was the progress of the Revolution in the direction he had foretold.
... too far in making public scenes, and breaking friendships, on an issue that need never have been publicly debated at all.* What saved his reputation was the progress of the Revolution in the direction he had foretold.
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years when events, seeming to confirm many of Burke's dire predictions, had drawn Burke and the Government closer together, it is never a case of his following a Government line, but rather of his reproaching the Government for its ...
years when events, seeming to confirm many of Burke's dire predictions, had drawn Burke and the Government closer together, it is never a case of his following a Government line, but rather of his reproaching the Government for its ...
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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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