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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... England would, if guided by pure calculation, have avoided these topics: it did not help Burke to be caricatured in the garb of a Jesuit, or to have it said – by Wilkes – that his oratory 'stank of whiskey and potatoes'. Burke's ...
... England would, if guided by pure calculation, have avoided these topics: it did not help Burke to be caricatured in the garb of a Jesuit, or to have it said – by Wilkes – that his oratory 'stank of whiskey and potatoes'. Burke's ...
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... England are cool and politic, provisional and contingent. It is not to the Church of England – still less to Protestantism – that he is attached, 'much from conviction; more from affection'; it is to 'Christianity at large'. This is odd ...
... England are cool and politic, provisional and contingent. It is not to the Church of England – still less to Protestantism – that he is attached, 'much from conviction; more from affection'; it is to 'Christianity at large'. This is odd ...
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... England but his family background was such – and his family feeling so strong – that he could not possibly contemplate attacks on the Church of Rome with any of the feelings of a proper Englishman – with detachment, complacency or ...
... England but his family background was such – and his family feeling so strong – that he could not possibly contemplate attacks on the Church of Rome with any of the feelings of a proper Englishman – with detachment, complacency or ...
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... England had been more painfully conscious of its imminence than Burke. 'We regarded as the great Evil of the time,' he wrote to Dr Hussey in December 1796, 'the growth of Jacobinism, and we were very well assured that from a variety of ...
... England had been more painfully conscious of its imminence than Burke. 'We regarded as the great Evil of the time,' he wrote to Dr Hussey in December 1796, 'the growth of Jacobinism, and we were very well assured that from a variety of ...
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... England but also Ireland, so that revolution for him was from the beginning a thing imaginable. This goes some way to explain the alertness and promptitude of Burke's response, the fact that he was the first man of importance in England ...
... England but also Ireland, so that revolution for him was from the beginning a thing imaginable. This goes some way to explain the alertness and promptitude of Burke's response, the fact that he was the first man of importance in England ...
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