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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... mind, very close together. 'That Jacobinism,' he wrote to Hussey, which is Speculative in its Origin and which arises from Wantonness and fullness of bread may possibly be kept under by firmness and prudence... But the Jacobinism which ...
... mind, very close together. 'That Jacobinism,' he wrote to Hussey, which is Speculative in its Origin and which arises from Wantonness and fullness of bread may possibly be kept under by firmness and prudence... But the Jacobinism which ...
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... mind of every man of property. This explains Burke's sensitivity, his nose for smoke; it does not, however, explain the intensity of his counter-revolutionary passion. He was not himself by the standards of the time a man of property ...
... mind of every man of property. This explains Burke's sensitivity, his nose for smoke; it does not, however, explain the intensity of his counter-revolutionary passion. He was not himself by the standards of the time a man of property ...
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... minds this is a scandal. The title of the work does not harmonize with its tone, which is often passionate and always contentious; the work starts out as a letter, and ends up as a mixture of a treatise, a pamphlet and a speech. Even ...
... minds this is a scandal. The title of the work does not harmonize with its tone, which is often passionate and always contentious; the work starts out as a letter, and ends up as a mixture of a treatise, a pamphlet and a speech. Even ...
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... minds of people of this Country from the suffering Cause. Not one french Refugee has intelligence or spirit enough to contradict them.'* He urged that the French emigrés should raise money for this purpose: 'If their avarice or their ...
... minds of people of this Country from the suffering Cause. Not one french Refugee has intelligence or spirit enough to contradict them.'* He urged that the French emigrés should raise money for this purpose: 'If their avarice or their ...
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... mind was occupied with quite different matters, he had written to a colleague in Opposition, suggesting that if the Opposition did not intend to give up altogether, they ought 'to change that tone of calm reasoning which certainly does ...
... mind was occupied with quite different matters, he had written to a colleague in Opposition, suggesting that if the Opposition did not intend to give up altogether, they ought 'to change that tone of calm reasoning which certainly does ...
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