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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... true this may be no more than a sudden explosion.... But if it should be character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must ...
... true this may be no more than a sudden explosion.... But if it should be character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must ...
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... true and safe reformation; a spirit well calculated to overturn states, but perfectly unfit to amend them.* The Reflections on the Revolution in France develop, defend and illustrate this argument. 3 The early, though not immediate ...
... true and safe reformation; a spirit well calculated to overturn states, but perfectly unfit to amend them.* The Reflections on the Revolution in France develop, defend and illustrate this argument. 3 The early, though not immediate ...
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... revolutionary; they were, rather, an attempt to prevent the development and exacerbation of a revolutionary situation. It is true that he never condemned the American Revolution, as he did the French, but then the secession of a.
... revolutionary; they were, rather, an attempt to prevent the development and exacerbation of a revolutionary situation. It is true that he never condemned the American Revolution, as he did the French, but then the secession of a.
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... true propagandist from the mere believer in a cause. Writing to his son Richard, and having noted that only about 10 per cent even of the Whigs favour French Revolutionary principles, he goes on: 'It may be asked, why I represent the ...
... true propagandist from the mere believer in a cause. Writing to his son Richard, and having noted that only about 10 per cent even of the Whigs favour French Revolutionary principles, he goes on: 'It may be asked, why I represent the ...
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... 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. He exaggerates what has already.
... 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. He exaggerates what has already.
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