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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'As to France,' he writes to Earl Fitzwilliam about the time when he must have been composing the reply to de Pont, if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes ...
'As to France,' he writes to Earl Fitzwilliam about the time when he must have been composing the reply to de Pont, if I were to give way to the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes ...
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... and a strong distrust of all reasoning not inspired by affection for what is. near and dear 'I have no great opinion of that sublime abstract, metaphysic reversionary, contingent humanity, which in cold blood can subject the present ...
... and a strong distrust of all reasoning not inspired by affection for what is. near and dear 'I have no great opinion of that sublime abstract, metaphysic reversionary, contingent humanity, which in cold blood can subject the present ...
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To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of conferring on his writings a superhuman authority. To challenge Burke's argument is then to fly in the face of nature. And as Burke himself, ...
To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of conferring on his writings a superhuman authority. To challenge Burke's argument is then to fly in the face of nature. And as Burke himself, ...
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He foresees, very early, that such warfare will be more cruel than any past warfare and accepts the necessity for this: The mode of civilized war will not be practised; nor are the French who act on the present system entitled to expect ...
He foresees, very early, that such warfare will be more cruel than any past warfare and accepts the necessity for this: The mode of civilized war will not be practised; nor are the French who act on the present system entitled to expect ...
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It is even improbable that, in the circumstances of present relations between the main branches of the human race, he would favour war with China.* Nor do his writings really imply support for that policy which those who most often ...
It is even improbable that, in the circumstances of present relations between the main branches of the human race, he would favour war with China.* Nor do his writings really imply support for that policy which those who most often ...
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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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