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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... England , the best - peopled part of the united kingdom . It is not universally true , that France is a fertile country . Considerable tracts of it are barren , and labour under other natural disadvantages . In the portions of that ...
... England , the best - peopled part of the united kingdom . It is not universally true , that France is a fertile country . Considerable tracts of it are barren , and labour under other natural disadvantages . In the portions of that ...
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... England ought to be the lightest of any nation in Europe ; instead of which , they are the con- trary . As this cannot be accounted for on the score of civil government , the subject necessarily extends itself to the monarchial part ...
... England ought to be the lightest of any nation in Europe ; instead of which , they are the con- trary . As this cannot be accounted for on the score of civil government , the subject necessarily extends itself to the monarchial part ...
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... England , the difference when applied to the latter amounts almost to an absurdity . In England , the person who exercises this prerogative is often a foreigner ; always half a foreigner , and always married to a foreigner . He is never ...
... England , the difference when applied to the latter amounts almost to an absurdity . In England , the person who exercises this prerogative is often a foreigner ; always half a foreigner , and always married to a foreigner . He is never ...
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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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