Reflections on the Revolution in FranceAnchor Press/Doubleday, 1973 - 515 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. A classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought, it articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that resonates with modern readers. |
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... live to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men , in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with ...
... live to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men , in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with ...
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... lives . You see , Sir , that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess , that we are generally men of untaught ... live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small ...
... lives . You see , Sir , that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess , that we are generally men of untaught ... live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small ...
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... live under an hereditary govern- ment , but under a government of its own choice and estab- lishment . Were the generation who sets him up , and the person so set up , to live for ever , it never could become hereditary succession ; and ...
... live under an hereditary govern- ment , but under a government of its own choice and estab- lishment . Were the generation who sets him up , and the person so set up , to live for ever , it never could become hereditary succession ; and ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke,Alan Wolfe,Darrin M. McMahon,Conor Cruise O'Brien,Jack N. Rakove Podgląd niedostępny - 2003 |
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