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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... effects are unique and without precedent. No other orator or political writer either before or after him has his ... effect 'to all Europe' he ought to write 'with special deliberation'. 'Away with all jest and sneer and sarcasm. Let ...
... effects are unique and without precedent. No other orator or political writer either before or after him has his ... effect 'to all Europe' he ought to write 'with special deliberation'. 'Away with all jest and sneer and sarcasm. Let ...
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... effect than this apparently simple factual statement by Messrs Hoffman and Levack.'‡ To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of conferring on his writings a superhuman authority. To ...
... effect than this apparently simple factual statement by Messrs Hoffman and Levack.'‡ To present Burke as a sort of semi-official spokesman for the law of nature has the effect of conferring on his writings a superhuman authority. To ...
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... effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.* And again: I must see with my own eyes, I must, in a manner touch with my own hands, not only the fixed but the momentary ...
... effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.* And again: I must see with my own eyes, I must, in a manner touch with my own hands, not only the fixed but the momentary ...
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... the King and Queen, the Terror, have already happened, whereas of course they all lie in the future.* It is true that this is an effect not only of Burke's prophetic sense but also of his rhetoric. He exaggerates what has already.
... the King and Queen, the Terror, have already happened, whereas of course they all lie in the future.* It is true that this is an effect not only of Burke's prophetic sense but also of his rhetoric. He exaggerates what has already.
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