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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... sense to his work, including the Reflections. The more one reads Burke the more one is impressed, I think, by a deep inner consistency, not always of language or opinion, but of feeling: a consistency of which the root principles are a ...
... sense to his work, including the Reflections. The more one reads Burke the more one is impressed, I think, by a deep inner consistency, not always of language or opinion, but of feeling: a consistency of which the root principles are a ...
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... sense, seeking to inculcate a preference for 'superstition' as against atheism. That it was only a part of his intention is obvious: his detestation of Jacobinism is real and even obsessive; there is no question of its being feigned for ...
... sense, seeking to inculcate a preference for 'superstition' as against atheism. That it was only a part of his intention is obvious: his detestation of Jacobinism is real and even obsessive; there is no question of its being feigned for ...
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... 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, since the beginning of the world against all property, all order, all ...
... 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, since the beginning of the world against all property, all order, all ...
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... 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. He exaggerates what has already.
... 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. He exaggerates what has already.
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... 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, Paine and Cloots, who write at this same time to assure him that the troubles ...
... 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, Paine and Cloots, who write at this same time to assure him that the troubles ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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