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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On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to his son about ... the portentous state of France – where the Elements which compose Human Society seem all to be dissolved, ...
On 10 October 1789, after the revolutionary removal of the king from Versailles to Paris, he writes to his son about ... the portentous state of France – where the Elements which compose Human Society seem all to be dissolved, ...
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'If I should 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.
'If I should 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.
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... in the latter half of that months‡ 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.
... in the latter half of that months‡ 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.
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In 1790 the French Revolution did not seem dangerous, to most Englishmen. ... of Burke's political friends, was not certain to attract new support and in fact its immediate effect seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity.
In 1790 the French Revolution did not seem dangerous, to most Englishmen. ... of Burke's political friends, was not certain to attract new support and in fact its immediate effect seems to have been even to increase his unpopularity.
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Johnson 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 ...
Johnson 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 ...
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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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