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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... thing like an equivocal description, which to many, unacquainted with our usages, might make the address, in which I joined, appear as the act of persons in some sort of corporate capacity, acknowledged by the laws of this kingdom, and ...
... thing like an equivocal description, which to many, unacquainted with our usages, might make the address, in which I joined, appear as the act of persons in some sort of corporate capacity, acknowledged by the laws of this kingdom, and ...
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... thing which relates to human actions , and human concerns , on a simple view of the object , as it stands stripped as it stands stripped of every relation , in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction . Circumstances ...
... thing which relates to human actions , and human concerns , on a simple view of the object , as it stands stripped as it stands stripped of every relation , in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction . Circumstances ...
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... things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The ... thing as new power in new persons, of whose principles, tempers, and dispositions, they have little or no experience ...
... things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The ... thing as new power in new persons, of whose principles, tempers, and dispositions, they have little or no experience ...
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... things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd and ridicu- lous; in the most ridiculous modes; and apparently, by the most contemptible instruments. Every thing seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity ...
... things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd and ridicu- lous; in the most ridiculous modes; and apparently, by the most contemptible instruments. Every thing seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity ...
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... thing resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the Prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter of King James , the eldest born of the issue of that king ...
... thing resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the Prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter of King James , the eldest born of the issue of that king ...
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