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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... in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators and what actors. England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud! The thing indeed, though I thought.
... in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators and what actors. England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud! The thing indeed, though I thought.
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... thought I saw something like it in progress for several years.† has still something in it paradoxical and Mysterious. The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is ...
... thought I saw something like it in progress for several years.† has still something in it paradoxical and Mysterious. The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is ...
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... thought most redoubtable to ordered society: ability without property. Had he been born in similar social circumstances in Arras in the 1750s, or in Dublin or Belfast in the 1760s, he might conceivably have been a revolutionary, and ...
... thought most redoubtable to ordered society: ability without property. Had he been born in similar social circumstances in Arras in the 1750s, or in Dublin or Belfast in the 1760s, he might conceivably have been a revolutionary, and ...
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... thought of as the 'horrors of the Revolution', the September massacres, execution of the King and Queen, the Reign of Terror – all are in the future. In this context the vehemence of Burke's attack, while certain to alienate many of ...
... thought of as the 'horrors of the Revolution', the September massacres, execution of the King and Queen, the Reign of Terror – all are in the future. In this context the vehemence of Burke's attack, while certain to alienate many of ...
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... thought with indiscreet vehemence – wrote, at the time when the Reflections were being composed, a vivid warning to Lord Fitzwilliam, whose agent he was: 'Think when you walk the streets of Peterborough that they lie under the stones ...
... thought with indiscreet vehemence – wrote, at the time when the Reflections were being composed, a vivid warning to Lord Fitzwilliam, whose agent he was: 'Think when you walk the streets of Peterborough that they lie under the stones ...
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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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