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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... that only about 10 per cent even of the Whigs favour French Revolutionary principles, he goes on: 'It may be asked, why I represent the whole party as tolerating, and by a toleration countenancing, these proceedings. It is.
... that only about 10 per cent even of the Whigs favour French Revolutionary principles, he goes on: 'It may be asked, why I represent the whole party as tolerating, and by a toleration countenancing, these proceedings. It is.
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... favour of 'a long war'* – a war which did not in fact end until nearly twenty years after his death. 9. It is not surprising that in our own time the counterrevolutionary propaganda in Burke's late writings should have been used for the ...
... favour of 'a long war'* – a war which did not in fact end until nearly twenty years after his death. 9. It is not surprising that in our own time the counterrevolutionary propaganda in Burke's late writings should have been used for the ...
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... favour of war with the Soviet Union in the 'forties. They could now be used in favour of war with China. 10 Such a conclusion should in itself be a warning against facile transposition. The fact that Burke advocated counterrevolutionary ...
... favour of war with the Soviet Union in the 'forties. They could now be used in favour of war with China. 10 Such a conclusion should in itself be a warning against facile transposition. The fact that Burke advocated counterrevolutionary ...
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... favour whatever course of action seemed to him, in the circumstances, most appropriate to prevent the spread of Communist principles and power. It is inconceivable that, in the circumstances of the thermo-nuclear balance of terror, he ...
... favour whatever course of action seemed to him, in the circumstances, most appropriate to prevent the spread of Communist principles and power. It is inconceivable that, in the circumstances of the thermo-nuclear balance of terror, he ...
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... favoured, required what he did not favour: the extension of imperialism. Modern conditions – on this argument – put the prime nuclei of revolutionary infection out of reach. All that can be done is to prevent the infection from ...
... favoured, required what he did not favour: the extension of imperialism. Modern conditions – on this argument – put the prime nuclei of revolutionary infection out of reach. All that can be done is to prevent the infection from ...
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