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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... become of the persuasive eloquence, the moderating concessions and the temporizing expedients of Mr Fox?'* The placid tone of Lord Fitzwilliam's reply† does not suggest that young Burke succeeded in communicating his vision. Here, as ...
... become of the persuasive eloquence, the moderating concessions and the temporizing expedients of Mr Fox?'* The placid tone of Lord Fitzwilliam's reply† does not suggest that young Burke succeeded in communicating his vision. Here, as ...
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... becomes open, and even violently so, in the unguarded writings of his last years. 'I think I can hardly exaggerate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendancy as it affects Ireland...'* 'The word protestant is the charm ...
... becomes open, and even violently so, in the unguarded writings of his last years. 'I think I can hardly exaggerate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendancy as it affects Ireland...'* 'The word protestant is the charm ...
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... becoming sensibly diminished. Burke's second manner might be called 'Jacobite' : both Gothic and pathetic. The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have ...
... becoming sensibly diminished. Burke's second manner might be called 'Jacobite' : both Gothic and pathetic. The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have ...
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... at the end of the eighteenth century: like the English then we Americans have become, without willing it, the defenders of civilization against the enemies of order and justice and freedom and the traditions of civility. Ours are.
... at the end of the eighteenth century: like the English then we Americans have become, without willing it, the defenders of civilization against the enemies of order and justice and freedom and the traditions of civility. Ours are.
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... becomes 'the normal harbour' of the mind. Mary Wollstonecraft was surely more perceptive when she saw in Burke a man who might have been 'a violent revolutionist'. He never became a revolutionist but there continued to smoulder in him ...
... becomes 'the normal harbour' of the mind. Mary Wollstonecraft was surely more perceptive when she saw in Burke a man who might have been 'a violent revolutionist'. He never became a revolutionist but there continued to smoulder in him ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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