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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... wish myself to be solicited about them. They are of too little consequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld. It was from attention to you, and to you only, that I hesitated at the time, when you first desired to ...
... wish myself to be solicited about them. They are of too little consequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld. It was from attention to you, and to you only, that I hesitated at the time, when you first desired to ...
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... wish to communicate more largely, what was at first intended only for your private satisfac- tion. I shall still keep your affairs in my eye, and continue to address myself to you. Indulging myself in the freedom of epis- tolary ...
... wish to communicate more largely, what was at first intended only for your private satisfac- tion. I shall still keep your affairs in my eye, and continue to address myself to you. Indulging myself in the freedom of epis- tolary ...
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... wish to separate the sermon from the resolution, they know how to acknowledge the one, and to dis- avow the other. They may do it: I cannot. any For my part, I looked on that sermon as the public declara- tion of a man much connected ...
... wish to separate the sermon from the resolution, they know how to acknowledge the one, and to dis- avow the other. They may do it: I cannot. any For my part, I looked on that sermon as the public declara- tion of a man much connected ...
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... wishes ) owes his crown to the choice of his people , yet nothing can evade their full explicit declaration , concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to ...
... wishes ) owes his crown to the choice of his people , yet nothing can evade their full explicit declaration , concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to ...
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... wish , in effect to recall King James , or to deluge their country in blood , and again to bring their religion , laws , and liberties into the peril they had just escaped , it was an act of necessity , in the strictest moral sense in ...
... wish , in effect to recall King James , or to deluge their country in blood , and again to bring their religion , laws , and liberties into the peril they had just escaped , it was an act of necessity , in the strictest moral sense in ...
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