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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... revolutionary writing in this way.† How else explain the defection from the cause of liberty of the man who had, as was claimed, championed the cause of the American Revolution? The charge was rendered plausible by Burke's complicated ...
... revolutionary writing in this way.† How else explain the defection from the cause of liberty of the man who had, as was claimed, championed the cause of the American Revolution? The charge was rendered plausible by Burke's complicated ...
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... revolutionary zeal. 4. 'What I most envy Burke for', said Dr Johnson, 'is, his being constantly the same.'† Johnson seems to have had in his mind primarily the equable temperament which was Burke's in his middle years, but a reader of ...
... revolutionary zeal. 4. 'What I most envy Burke for', said Dr Johnson, 'is, his being constantly the same.'† Johnson seems to have had in his mind primarily the equable temperament which was Burke's in his middle years, but a reader of ...
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... Revolution controversy – inquired about his religious beliefs, he replied that having been baptized and educated in the Church of England he had 'seen no cause to abandon that communion. When I do, I shall act upon my conviction or my ...
... Revolution controversy – inquired about his religious beliefs, he replied that having been baptized and educated in the Church of England he had 'seen no cause to abandon that communion. When I do, I shall act upon my conviction or my ...
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... revolution in Ireland are naturally most frequent in the last years of his life, the period closest to the impending revolt. But Ireland was never far from his thoughts. As a modern Burke scholar has written: '... like every other ...
... revolution in Ireland are naturally most frequent in the last years of his life, the period closest to the impending revolt. But Ireland was never far from his thoughts. As a modern Burke scholar has written: '... like every other ...
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... Revolution: that of approval for what seemed an anti-Papist reformation and that of 'It can' t happen here'. 'Here', for Burke, was not only England but also Ireland, so that revolution for him was from the beginning a thing imaginable ...
... Revolution: that of approval for what seemed an anti-Papist reformation and that of 'It can' t happen here'. 'Here', for Burke, was not only England but also Ireland, so that revolution for him was from the beginning a thing imaginable ...
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