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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... question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counter- revolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in considering the relevance of Burke to the militant anti ...
... question is I think to raise doubts about the degree of enlightenment in the self-interest of international counter- revolutionary combination. I shall return to this topic, in considering the relevance of Burke to the militant anti ...
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... 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 all things a Virtue , in Politicks the first of Virtues ) ...
... 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 all things a Virtue , in Politicks the first of Virtues ) ...
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... question of his taking a public stand . Even allowing for Burke's unusual gifts of political foresight , an attack on the French Revolution cannot have looked , in the first half of 1790 , like a promising pathway to a pension . In 1790 ...
... question of his taking a public stand . Even allowing for Burke's unusual gifts of political foresight , an attack on the French Revolution cannot have looked , in the first half of 1790 , like a promising pathway to a pension . In 1790 ...
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... question of this type , whether it concerns the living or the dead , cannot be answered with certainty . I should like to offer here a conjectural answer which seems to me to be in full accord with what we know of Burke's life and ...
... question of this type , whether it concerns the living or the dead , cannot be answered with certainty . I should like to offer here a conjectural answer which seems to me to be in full accord with what we know of Burke's life and ...
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... question of its being feigned for an ulterior motive . Yet his anti - Jacobinism cannot be separated from his sense of identification with Catholics , that is to say from his Irish origins . In a letter of 1795 he says that his ' whole ...
... question of its being feigned for an ulterior motive . Yet his anti - Jacobinism cannot be separated from his sense of identification with Catholics , that is to say from his Irish origins . In a letter of 1795 he says that his ' whole ...
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