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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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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There can be no doubt that the rehabilitation of Catholicism was part of Burke's intention; he explicitly argues in this sense, seeking to inculcate a preference for 'superstition' as against atheism. That it was only a part of his ...
There can be no doubt that the rehabilitation of Catholicism was part of Burke's intention; he explicitly argues in this sense, seeking to inculcate a preference for 'superstition' as against atheism. That it was only a part of his ...
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We now have our arms in our hands; we have the means of opposing the sense, the courage and the resources of England to the deepest, the most craftily devised, the best combined and the most extensive design that ever was carried on, ...
We now have our arms in our hands; we have the means of opposing the sense, the courage and the resources of England to the deepest, the most craftily devised, the best combined and the most extensive design that ever was carried on, ...
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... the execution of the King and Queen, the Terror, have already happened, whereas of course they all lie in the future.* It is true that this is an effect not only of Burke's prophetic sense but also of his rhetoric.
... the execution of the King and Queen, the Terror, have already happened, whereas of course they all lie in the future.* It is true that this is an effect not only of Burke's prophetic sense but also of his rhetoric.
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He exaggerates what has already happened, but he does so in and with the sense of what is going to happen. The contrast is extraordinary between Burke's grim foreboding, in 1790, and the tone of his proRevolutionary correspondents, ...
He exaggerates what has already happened, but he does so in and with the sense of what is going to happen. The contrast is extraordinary between Burke's grim foreboding, in 1790, and the tone of his proRevolutionary correspondents, ...
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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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