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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... continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk con- gratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would ...
... continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk con- gratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would ...
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... continue to address myself to you. Indulging myself in the freedom of epis- tolary intercourse, I beg leave to throw out my thoughts, and express my feelings, just as they arise in my mind, with very little attention to formal method. I ...
... continue to address myself to you. Indulging myself in the freedom of epis- tolary intercourse, I beg leave to throw out my thoughts, and express my feelings, just as they arise in my mind, with very little attention to formal method. I ...
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... continue the same body politic . It is far from impossible to reconcile , if we do not suffer our- selves to be entangled in the mazes of metaphysic sophistry , the use both of a fixed rule and an occasional deviation ; the sacred- ness ...
... continue the same body politic . It is far from impossible to reconcile , if we do not suffer our- selves to be entangled in the mazes of metaphysic sophistry , the use both of a fixed rule and an occasional deviation ; the sacred- ness ...
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... continue to the heirs of her body, being Protestants.” This limitation was made by parliament, that through the ... continuing to adopt a plan of hereditary Protestant succession in the old line , with all the 22 Edmund Burke.
... continue to the heirs of her body, being Protestants.” This limitation was made by parliament, that through the ... continuing to adopt a plan of hereditary Protestant succession in the old line , with all the 22 Edmund Burke.
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... continue to cherish them . We ought not , on either side of the water , to suffer ourselves to be imposed upon by the counterfeit wares which some persons , by a double fraud , export to you in illicit bottoms , as raw commodities of ...
... continue to cherish them . We ought not , on either side of the water , to suffer ourselves to be imposed upon by the counterfeit wares which some persons , by a double fraud , export to you in illicit bottoms , as raw commodities of ...
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