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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... follow their rule, the king of Great Britain, who most cer- tainly does not owe his high office to any form of popular elec- tion, is in no respect better than the rest of the gang of usurpers, who reign, or rather rob, all over the ...
... follow their rule, the king of Great Britain, who most cer- tainly does not owe his high office to any form of popular elec- tion, is in no respect better than the rest of the gang of usurpers, who reign, or rather rob, all over the ...
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... follows, for preventing questions, by reason of any pretended titles to the crown, they declare (observing also in ... follow with a clause, containing a most solemn pledge, taken from the preceding act of Queen Elizabeth, as solemn a ...
... follows, for preventing questions, by reason of any pretended titles to the crown, they declare (observing also in ... follow with a clause, containing a most solemn pledge, taken from the preceding act of Queen Elizabeth, as solemn a ...
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... follow him , to Blackstone , are industrious to prove the pedigree of our liberties . They endeavour to prove , that the antient charter , the Magna Charta of King John , was con- nected with another positive charter from Henry I. and ...
... follow him , to Blackstone , are industrious to prove the pedigree of our liberties . They endeavour to prove , that the antient charter , the Magna Charta of King John , was con- nected with another positive charter from Henry I. and ...
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... follow. They must conform their propositions to the taste, talent, and disposition of those whom they wish to con- duct: therefore, if an Assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it, nothing but such a supreme ...
... follow. They must conform their propositions to the taste, talent, and disposition of those whom they wish to con- duct: therefore, if an Assembly is viciously or feebly composed in a very great part of it, nothing but such a supreme ...
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... follow . The degree of estimation in which any profession is held becomes the standard of the estimation in which the professors hold themselves . Whatever the personal merits of many individ- ual lawyers might have been , and in many ...
... follow . The degree of estimation in which any profession is held becomes the standard of the estimation in which the professors hold themselves . Whatever the personal merits of many individ- ual lawyers might have been , and in many ...
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