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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... can find Means to trespass on the liberty of any Person or any description of Persons in the Society.' Failing this, failing the establishment of real practical Liberty with a Government powerful to Protect, impotent to invade it.
... can find Means to trespass on the liberty of any Person or any description of Persons in the Society.' Failing this, failing the establishment of real practical Liberty with a Government powerful to Protect, impotent to invade it.
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... how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least countenance in England, where he was sure some wicked persons had shewn a strong disposition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform.
... how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least countenance in England, where he was sure some wicked persons had shewn a strong disposition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform.
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... of persons who only exist in idea.'* The amount of added emphasis, unusual in Burke, is, I think, proportionate to the strength of his feelings on this theme. (See Reflection p. 315, the passage ending 'so many little images of the ...
... of persons who only exist in idea.'* The amount of added emphasis, unusual in Burke, is, I think, proportionate to the strength of his feelings on this theme. (See Reflection p. 315, the passage ending 'so many little images of the ...
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As for the native Irish, if they had indeed committed the crime of rebellion, 'they rued it in their persons and in those of their children and grandchildren even to the fifth and sixth generations.' The contrast between this passionate ...
As for the native Irish, if they had indeed committed the crime of rebellion, 'they rued it in their persons and in those of their children and grandchildren even to the fifth and sixth generations.' The contrast between this passionate ...
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I am sure that the principles predominant in France extend to very many persons... in all countries who think their innoxious indolence their security. This kind of innocence in proprietors may be ...
I am sure that the principles predominant in France extend to very many persons... in all countries who think their innoxious indolence their security. This kind of innocence in proprietors may be ...
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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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