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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The spirit of total, radical innovation; the overthrow of all prescriptive rights; the confiscation of property; destruction of the Church, the nobility, the family, tradition, veneration, the ancestors, the nation – this is the ...
The spirit of total, radical innovation; the overthrow of all prescriptive rights; the confiscation of property; destruction of the Church, the nobility, the family, tradition, veneration, the ancestors, the nation – this is the ...
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The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true this may be no more than a sudden explosion.... But if it should be character rather than accident, ...
The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true this may be no more than a sudden explosion.... But if it should be character rather than accident, ...
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... how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least countenance in England, where he was sure some wicked persons had shewn a strong disposition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform.
... how anxious he was to keep the distemper of France from the least countenance in England, where he was sure some wicked persons had shewn a strong disposition to recommend an imitation of the French spirit of reform.
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In the debate in which Burke committed himself – in February 1790 – Pitt himself spoke about the Revolution in a conciliatory spirit. Even in later years when events, seeming to confirm many of Burke's dire.
In the debate in which Burke committed himself – in February 1790 – Pitt himself spoke about the Revolution in a conciliatory spirit. Even in later years when events, seeming to confirm many of Burke's dire.
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Not one french Refugee has intelligence or spirit enough to contradict them.'* He urged that the French emigrés should raise money for this purpose: 'If their avarice or their dissipation will afford nothing to their honour or their ...
Not one french Refugee has intelligence or spirit enough to contradict them.'* He urged that the French emigrés should raise money for this purpose: 'If their avarice or their dissipation will afford nothing to their honour or their ...
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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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