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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... of Rhadamanthine irony: 'All the little quiet rivulets, that watered an humble, a contracted, but not an unfruitful field, are to be lost in the waste expanse, and boundless, barren ocean of the homicide philanthopy of France.'†
... of Rhadamanthine irony: 'All the little quiet rivulets, that watered an humble, a contracted, but not an unfruitful field, are to be lost in the waste expanse, and boundless, barren ocean of the homicide philanthopy of France.'†
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... France. Raynaud's introduction ends: Whence comes, under these conditions [referring to his own previous criticisms of Burke], the persuasive force of the Reflections? Their charm comes from the incomparable art with which Burke is able ...
... France. Raynaud's introduction ends: Whence comes, under these conditions [referring to his own previous criticisms of Burke], the persuasive force of the Reflections? Their charm comes from the incomparable art with which Burke is able ...
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... France; first assuring you, that I am not, and that I have never been, a member of either of those societies. The first, calling itself the Constitutional Society, or Society for Constitutional Information, or by some such title, is, I ...
... France; first assuring you, that I am not, and that I have never been, a member of either of those societies. The first, calling itself the Constitutional Society, or Society for Constitutional Information, or by some such title, is, I ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
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