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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... whole tenor of his writing makes it clear that he was not a man likely to cherish one set of dogmas – or other abstractions – beneath a feigned belief in another set. His feelings are another matter. To an unknown correspondent who – at ...
... whole tenor of his writing makes it clear that he was not a man likely to cherish one set of dogmas – or other abstractions – beneath a feigned belief in another set. His feelings are another matter. To an unknown correspondent who – at ...
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... whole unoffending tribes and their chieftains! [sic] They would not conjure up the ghosts from the ruins of castles and churches, to tell for what attempt to struggle for the independence of an Irish legislature, and to raise armies of ...
... whole unoffending tribes and their chieftains! [sic] They would not conjure up the ghosts from the ruins of castles and churches, to tell for what attempt to struggle for the independence of an Irish legislature, and to raise armies of ...
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... whole politics centre in anti-Jacobinism'; that 'the first, last and middle object of Jacobin hostility is religion'; that the practice of Catholicism by its professor 'forms as things stand, the most effectual barrier, if not the sole ...
... whole politics centre in anti-Jacobinism'; that 'the first, last and middle object of Jacobin hostility is religion'; that the practice of Catholicism by its professor 'forms as things stand, the most effectual barrier, if not the sole ...
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... whole range of modern scholarship that has had greater effect than this apparently simple factual statement by Messrs Hoffman and Levack.'‡ To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of ...
... whole range of modern scholarship that has had greater effect than this apparently simple factual statement by Messrs Hoffman and Levack.'‡ To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of ...
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... whole. We can, however, reasonably hold that a conservative who fears the over-extension of his country's power – as Senator Fulbright does – can claim descent from Burke with just as much validity as the practioners of counter ...
... whole. We can, however, reasonably hold that a conservative who fears the over-extension of his country's power – as Senator Fulbright does – can claim descent from Burke with just as much validity as the practioners of counter ...
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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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