Reflections on the Revolution in FranceCourier Corporation, 29 sie 2012 - 256 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It provoked an enormous reaction, both supportive and critical, with a flood of pamphlets and books (including Thomas Paine's enduring denunciation, The Rights of Man). Endlessly reprinted and studied by countless scholars and other readers, this is a classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought. Burke ranked among the era's most eloquent defenders of democracy; however, he also realized the dangers of unchecked liberty and that mob rule is in no way better than the reign of a king or dictator. His lucid and passionate manifesto, written in the form of letters, employs examples from the aftermath of the French Revolution to demonstrate the superiority of gradual political change over outright anti-authoritarian revolt. A believer in practicality rather than abstract theorizing, Burke articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that continues to resonate with twenty-first century readers. |
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... Paris, who did him the honour of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written some time in the month of October 1789; but it was ...
... Paris, who did him the honour of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written some time in the month of October 1789; but it was ...
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... Paris: but having no gen- eral apostolical mission, being a citizen of a particular state, and being bound up in a considerable degree, by its public will, I should think it, at least improper and irregular, for me to open a formal ...
... Paris: but having no gen- eral apostolical mission, being a citizen of a particular state, and being bound up in a considerable degree, by its public will, I should think it, at least improper and irregular, for me to open a formal ...
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... Paris fashion of an improved liberty . The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried ; nor go back to those which they have found mis- chievous on trial . They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their ...
... Paris fashion of an improved liberty . The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried ; nor go back to those which they have found mis- chievous on trial . They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their ...
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... Paris told your king, that in calling the states together, he had nothing to fear but the prodi- gal excess of their zeal in providing for the support of the throne. It is right that these men should hide their heads. It is right that ...
... Paris told your king, that in calling the states together, he had nothing to fear but the prodi- gal excess of their zeal in providing for the support of the throne. It is right that these men should hide their heads. It is right that ...
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... Paris, for instance) is composed, cannot be equal to the situation, into which, by the worst of usurpations, an usurpation on the prerogatives of nature, you attempt to force them. The chancellor of France at the opening of the states ...
... Paris, for instance) is composed, cannot be equal to the situation, into which, by the worst of usurpations, an usurpation on the prerogatives of nature, you attempt to force them. The chancellor of France at the opening of the states ...
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