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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... character of English sympathy with the French Revolution. This indignation burns quite as brightly in his private correspondence as in his published tracts. The opinion, presented by Marx and others, that it was all feigned, that he was ...
... character of English sympathy with the French Revolution. This indignation burns quite as brightly in his private correspondence as in his published tracts. The opinion, presented by Marx and others, that it was all feigned, that he was ...
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... character of the Revolution: 'The whole of the power obtained by this revolution will settle in the towns among the burghers and the monied directors who lead them.' Examples could be multiplied at length. But it is nearly as wrong to ...
... character of the Revolution: 'The whole of the power obtained by this revolution will settle in the towns among the burghers and the monied directors who lead them.' Examples could be multiplied at length. But it is nearly as wrong to ...
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... character is acknowledged in advance – combined with severe internal repression.† Nor is it so clear that 'at bottom' Burke was an extreme conservative. He reached in his old age the position of an extreme conservative, but it would be ...
... character is acknowledged in advance – combined with severe internal repression.† Nor is it so clear that 'at bottom' Burke was an extreme conservative. He reached in his old age the position of an extreme conservative, but it would be ...
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... character, radically different from that of European reactionaries, like Maistre and Bonald. Unlike them he has reason to know how a revolutionary might feel; for him the forces of revolution and counter-revolution exist not only in the ...
... character, radically different from that of European reactionaries, like Maistre and Bonald. Unlike them he has reason to know how a revolutionary might feel; for him the forces of revolution and counter-revolution exist not only in the ...
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... for his whereabouts and his acquaintances.' Mansfield's introduction is full of insights, like this one with its lapidary conclusion: Even his prescient understanding of the character, importance and future of the French.
... for his whereabouts and his acquaintances.' Mansfield's introduction is full of insights, like this one with its lapidary conclusion: Even his prescient understanding of the character, importance and future of the French.
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