Reflections on the Revolution in FranceCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 264 páginas Reflections on the Revolution in France is the most famous and popular work of Irish political writer and statesman EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), whose 12-volume set of collected works has long been considered one of the most influential anthologies of political philosophy in the English language. Reflections, included in Volume III of that set, is significant enough to warrant its own separate publication here. Although Burke supported many liberal movements, such as the right of self-rule of the American colonies and of Ireland, he did not support the French Revolution: he believed the uprising was based on faulty notions that did not properly account for the pitfalls of human nature, and this, he predicted, would lead the revolutionaries to disaster. And indeed, the Revolution did lead to the Reign of Terror and eventually Napoleon Bonaparte. Students of history and philosophy will find Burke's arguments as provocative as his contemporaries did. |
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... parliament of both parties were so little disposed to any thing resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the Prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter ...
... parliament of both parties were so little disposed to any thing resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the Prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter ...
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... parliament , he makes the lords and commons fall to a pious , legislative ejaculation , and declare , that they consider it " as a marvellous providence , and merciful goodness of God to this nation , to preserve their said majesties ...
... parliament , he makes the lords and commons fall to a pious , legislative ejaculation , and declare , that they consider it " as a marvellous providence , and merciful goodness of God to this nation , to preserve their said majesties ...
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... parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral competence , subjecting , even in powers more indis- putably sovereign , occasional will to permanent reason , and to the steady maxims of faith , justice , and fixed fundamental ...
... parliament at that time ; but the limits of a moral competence , subjecting , even in powers more indis- putably sovereign , occasional will to permanent reason , and to the steady maxims of faith , justice , and fixed fundamental ...
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... parliament might have been saved at the period these gentlemen commemorate . But King James was a bad king with a good title , and not an usurper . The princes who succeeded according to the act of parliament which settled the crown on ...
... parliament might have been saved at the period these gentlemen commemorate . But King James was a bad king with a good title , and not an usurper . The princes who succeeded according to the act of parliament which settled the crown on ...
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... parliament , that through the Princess Sophia an inheritable line , not only was to be continued in future but ( what they thought very material ) that through her it was to be connected with the old stock of inheritance in King James ...
... parliament , that through the Princess Sophia an inheritable line , not only was to be continued in future but ( what they thought very material ) that through her it was to be connected with the old stock of inheritance in King James ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke,Alan Wolfe,Darrin M. McMahon,Conor Cruise O'Brien,Jack N. Rakove Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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