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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'As to us here', he wrote to Lord Charlemont on 9 August 1789, * our thoughts of everything at home are suspended, by our astonishment at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators ...
'As to us here', he wrote to Lord Charlemont on 9 August 1789, * our thoughts of everything at home are suspended, by our astonishment at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country – what Spectators ...
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The thing indeed, though I 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 ...
The thing indeed, though I 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 ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft thought so: 'Reading your Reflections warily over, it has continually struck me, that had you been a Frenchman, you would have been, in spite of your respect for rank and antiquity, a violent revolutionist.
Mary Wollstonecraft thought so: 'Reading your Reflections warily over, it has continually struck me, that had you been a Frenchman, you would have been, in spite of your respect for rank and antiquity, a violent revolutionist.
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... attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the English example; the principal events that were to be thought of as the ...
... attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the English example; the principal events that were to be thought of as the ...
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'The Burkes', close to the rawness and deep social and political resentments of Ireland, were much more aware of the underside of society, and conscious of danger. Richard Burke, Jr – who often expressed his father's thought with ...
'The Burkes', close to the rawness and deep social and political resentments of Ireland, were much more aware of the underside of society, and conscious of danger. Richard Burke, Jr – who often expressed his father's thought with ...
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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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