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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and discipline for politicks, and for the nourishment of a party which seems to have contention and power much more than Piety for its Object...‡ It is clear, I think, that had the Dissenting influence been used in favour of the Whigs, ...
and discipline for politicks, and for the nourishment of a party which seems to have contention and power much more than Piety for its Object...‡ It is clear, I think, that had the Dissenting influence been used in favour of the Whigs, ...
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In a letter of 1795 he says that his 'whole politics centre in anti-Jacobinism'; that 'the first, last and middle object of Jacobin hostility is religion'; that the practice of Catholicism by its professor 'forms as things stand, ...
In a letter of 1795 he says that his 'whole politics centre in anti-Jacobinism'; that 'the first, last and middle object of Jacobin hostility is religion'; that the practice of Catholicism by its professor 'forms as things stand, ...
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... 'The calm mode of Enquiry would be a very temperate method of our losing our Object; and a very certain mode of finding no calmness on the side of our adversary. Our being mobbish is our only chance for his being reasonable.
... 'The calm mode of Enquiry would be a very temperate method of our losing our Object; and a very certain mode of finding no calmness on the side of our adversary. Our being mobbish is our only chance for his being reasonable.
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in relation to America, in his earlier years – an America then an object, not a source, of imperialism – but in relation to India and Ireland in his later years, and also because of the implications of such psychology for the imperial ...
in relation to America, in his earlier years – an America then an object, not a source, of imperialism – but in relation to India and Ireland in his later years, and also because of the implications of such psychology for the imperial ...
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Burke is deliberately unsystematic and the various systems called 'Burke's philosophy' which pedants have constructed, out of the hollower components of his rhetoric and the commonplaces of his education, are sad, boring objects, ...
Burke is deliberately unsystematic and the various systems called 'Burke's philosophy' which pedants have constructed, out of the hollower components of his rhetoric and the commonplaces of his education, are sad, boring objects, ...
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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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