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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... Whilst you pique nature against you, you do unwisely to trust to duty.'* These are not isolated epiphanies; they have a social significance. Intellectual presumption – or self-confidence – is the morale of the revolutionary, whereby he ...
... Whilst you pique nature against you, you do unwisely to trust to duty.'* These are not isolated epiphanies; they have a social significance. Intellectual presumption – or self-confidence – is the morale of the revolutionary, whereby he ...
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... whilst it is predominant there. † If Burke's counter-revolutionary writings are literally transposed into modern terms they are appropriate not so much to the moderate Right as to the farthest reaches of American reaction. Their ...
... whilst it is predominant there. † If Burke's counter-revolutionary writings are literally transposed into modern terms they are appropriate not so much to the moderate Right as to the farthest reaches of American reaction. Their ...
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... whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.'* Sometimes an insight produces an aphorism like this one about literature and the Left: 'Men of letters, fond of distinguishing themselves, are rarely ...
... whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.'* Sometimes an insight produces an aphorism like this one about literature and the Left: 'Men of letters, fond of distinguishing themselves, are rarely ...
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