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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... thoughts. As a modern Burke scholar has written: '... like every other responsible and intelligent Irishman with sufficient heart from that day to this, Burke carried Ireland round with him as his personal “old man of the sea”.'* Burke ...
... thoughts. As a modern Burke scholar has written: '... like every other responsible and intelligent Irishman with sufficient heart from that day to this, Burke carried Ireland round with him as his personal “old man of the sea”.'* Burke ...
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... thought as it has come down to us from its formulation in different circumstances is inapplicable as a whole. We can, however, reasonably hold that a conservative who fears the over-extension of his country's power – as Senator ...
... thought as it has come down to us from its formulation in different circumstances is inapplicable as a whole. We can, however, reasonably hold that a conservative who fears the over-extension of his country's power – as Senator ...
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... thought, for the inspiration and invigoration of the intellectual heirs of Metternich.* That those who advocate or approve the contemporary counter-revolution should interest themselves in the Reflections requires no demonstration. But ...
... thought, for the inspiration and invigoration of the intellectual heirs of Metternich.* That those who advocate or approve the contemporary counter-revolution should interest themselves in the Reflections requires no demonstration. But ...
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... thought than the right has long given to The Communist Manifesto. The fact that Burke's manifesto aroused and rallied the first modern counterrevolutionary movement, and that it is still invoked for the contemporary counter-revolution ...
... thought than the right has long given to The Communist Manifesto. The fact that Burke's manifesto aroused and rallied the first modern counterrevolutionary movement, and that it is still invoked for the contemporary counter-revolution ...
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... thought he was exaggerating, and in a sense he was, but as reality expanded to meet his exaggeration, it became apparent that it was those 'who had kept their heads' who had failed to understand. Burke's eye for significant detail, his ...
... thought he was exaggerating, and in a sense he was, but as reality expanded to meet his exaggeration, it became apparent that it was those 'who had kept their heads' who had failed to understand. Burke's eye for significant detail, his ...
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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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