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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... writings. 2. From the very beginning, just after the fall of the Bastille, events which seemed to so many a new dawn of liberty aroused Burke's forebodings, without however yet drawing down a general condemnation. 'As to us here', he ...
... writings. 2. From the very beginning, just after the fall of the Bastille, events which seemed to so many a new dawn of liberty aroused Burke's forebodings, without however yet drawing down a general condemnation. 'As to us here', he ...
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... writing in this way . How else explain the defection from the cause of liberty of the man who had , as was ... writings on American affairs were not revolutionary ; they were , rather , an attempt to prevent the development and ...
... writing in this way . How else explain the defection from the cause of liberty of the man who had , as was ... writings on American affairs were not revolutionary ; they were , rather , an attempt to prevent the development and ...
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... writings on the Revolutiont goes much deeper than the specific quarrel over party politics . It was natural that Dissenters – and ordinary English Protestants generally – should welcome the early stages of the French Revolution because ...
... writings on the Revolutiont goes much deeper than the specific quarrel over party politics . It was natural that Dissenters – and ordinary English Protestants generally – should welcome the early stages of the French Revolution because ...
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... 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 the height of the ...
... 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 the height of the ...
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... writings . This is that Burke , in his counter - revolutionary writings , is partially liberating – in a permissible way a suppressed revolutionary part of his own personality . These writings – which appear at first sight to be an ...
... writings . This is that Burke , in his counter - revolutionary writings , is partially liberating – in a permissible way a suppressed revolutionary part of his own personality . These writings – which appear at first sight to be an ...
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