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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... the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes which have given rise to it and which now begin to be unfolded, I should think it a country undone... I should certainly wish to see France ...
... the speculations which arise in my Mind from the present State of things and from the causes which have given rise to it and which now begin to be unfolded, I should think it a country undone... I should certainly wish to see France ...
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They have begun; and it is high time for those who wish to preserve morem majorum to look about them.' The first phase of Burke's counter-revolutionary activity – the phase of the Reflections – was that of fighting the influence of ...
They have begun; and it is high time for those who wish to preserve morem majorum to look about them.' The first phase of Burke's counter-revolutionary activity – the phase of the Reflections – was that of fighting the influence of ...
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have found even more offensive than a plain condemnation: 'I wish you would let me teach you to write English.... Why will you not allow Yourself to be persuaded, that polish is material to preservation? It has not yet been in my power ...
have found even more offensive than a plain condemnation: 'I wish you would let me teach you to write English.... Why will you not allow Yourself to be persuaded, that polish is material to preservation? It has not yet been in my power ...
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... which might be 'useful hereafter in any Systematick proceeding towards disposing the publick in this Country in your favour which I wish some French Gentlemen here would undertake under the direction of some judicious English.
... which might be 'useful hereafter in any Systematick proceeding towards disposing the publick in this Country in your favour which I wish some French Gentlemen here would undertake under the direction of some judicious English.
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... never wish to aggrandize ourselves in some way or other. Can we say, that even at this very hour we are not invidiously aggrandized? We are already in possession of almost all the commerce of the world.
... never wish to aggrandize ourselves in some way or other. Can we say, that even at this very hour we are not invidiously aggrandized? We are already in possession of almost all the commerce of the world.
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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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