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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There is no need to doubt his denial; the 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 ...
There is no need to doubt his denial; the 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 ...
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Samuel, to ask him, by what act of arbitrary monarchs, by what inquisitions of corrupted tribunals, and tortured jurors, by what fictitious tenures, invented to dispossess whole unoffending tribes and their chieftains!
Samuel, to ask him, by what act of arbitrary monarchs, by what inquisitions of corrupted tribunals, and tortured jurors, by what fictitious tenures, invented to dispossess whole unoffending tribes and their chieftains!
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In a letter of 1795 he says that his '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, ...
In a letter of 1795 he says that his '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, ...
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... which Mr Peter J. Stanlis was co-editor – averred that he could 'think of no sentence in the whole range of modern scholarship that has had greater effect than this apparently simple factual statement by Messrs Hoffman and Levack.
... which Mr Peter J. Stanlis was co-editor – averred that he could 'think of no sentence in the whole range of modern scholarship that has had greater effect than this apparently simple factual statement by Messrs Hoffman and Levack.
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If counter revolution required imperialism in the circumstances of today, then Burke's thought as it has come down to us from its formulation in different circumstances is inapplicable as a whole. We can, however, reasonably hold that a ...
If counter revolution required imperialism in the circumstances of today, then Burke's thought as it has come down to us from its formulation in different circumstances is inapplicable as a whole. We can, however, reasonably hold that a ...
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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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