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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... seem all to be dissolved, and a world of Monsters to be produc'd in the place of it – where Mirabeau presides as the Grand Anarch; and the late Grand Monarch makes a figure as ridiculous as pitiable. I expect to hear of his dismissing ...
... seem all to be dissolved, and a world of Monsters to be produc'd in the place of it – where Mirabeau presides as the Grand Anarch; and the late Grand Monarch makes a figure as ridiculous as pitiable. I expect to hear of his dismissing ...
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... seem...' he says, 'to express myself in the language of disapprobation, be so good as to consider it as no more than the expression of doubt.' He defines that freedom which he loves: 'The Liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that ...
... seem...' he says, 'to express myself in the language of disapprobation, be so good as to consider it as no more than the expression of doubt.' He defines that freedom which he loves: 'The Liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that ...
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... seems to register within itself the transition. In that letter he is more philosophical, or teleological, about the situation in France than he is ever to be again: 'Man is a gregarious animal. He will by degrees provide some ...
... seems to register within itself the transition. In that letter he is more philosophical, or teleological, about the situation in France than he is ever to be again: 'Man is a gregarious animal. He will by degrees provide some ...
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... seem dangerous, to most Englishmen. France seemed even to be 'settling down'. Burke himself had been informed, towards ... seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity. A recent writer has summed up the situation just after the ...
... seem dangerous, to most Englishmen. France seemed even to be 'settling down'. Burke himself had been informed, towards ... seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity. A recent writer has summed up the situation just after the ...
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... seems to have had in his mind primarily the equable temperament which was Burke's in his middle years, but a reader of Burke is likely to find the comment applicable in a more general sense to his work, including the Reflections. The ...
... seems to have had in his mind primarily the equable temperament which was Burke's in his middle years, but a reader of Burke is likely to find the comment applicable in a more general sense to his work, including the Reflections. The ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
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