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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... Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. Solicitous chiefly for the peace of my own country, but by no means unconcerned for your's, I wish to communicate more largely, what was at ...
... Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. Solicitous chiefly for the peace of my own country, but by no means unconcerned for your's, I wish to communicate more largely, what was at ...
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... better than the rest of the gang of usurpers, who reign, or rather rob, all over the face of this our miserable world, without any sort of right or title to the allegiance of their people. The policy of this general doctrine, so ...
... better than the rest of the gang of usurpers, who reign, or rather rob, all over the face of this our miserable world, without any sort of right or title to the allegiance of their people. The policy of this general doctrine, so ...
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... better than those by whom it was brought about; or to read in the Declaration of Right any mysteries unknown to those whose penetrating style has engraved in our ordinances, and REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE 17.
... better than those by whom it was brought about; or to read in the Declaration of Right any mysteries unknown to those whose penetrating style has engraved in our ordinances, and REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE 17.
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... better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, they pro- vided, “that no pardon under the great seal of England should be pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament.” The REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE 25.
... better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, they pro- vided, “that no pardon under the great seal of England should be pleadable to an impeachment by the commons in parliament.” The REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE 25.
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... better security not only for their constitutional liberty, but against the vices of administra- tion, than the reservation of a right so difficult in the practice, so uncertain in the issue, and often so mischievous in the conse ...
... better security not only for their constitutional liberty, but against the vices of administra- tion, than the reservation of a right so difficult in the practice, so uncertain in the issue, and often so mischievous in the conse ...
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