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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... land - mark of the country to be done away in favour of a geometrical and arithmetical constitution ? Is the house of lords to be voted useless ? Is episcopacy to be abolished ? Are the church lands to be sold to Jews and jobbers ; or ...
... land - mark of the country to be done away in favour of a geometrical and arithmetical constitution ? Is the house of lords to be voted useless ? Is episcopacy to be abolished ? Are the church lands to be sold to Jews and jobbers ; or ...
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... lands for sale ; and carrying on a process of continual transmutation of paper into land , and land into paper . When we follow this process in its effects , we may conceive something of the intensity of the force with which this system ...
... lands for sale ; and carrying on a process of continual transmutation of paper into land , and land into paper . When we follow this process in its effects , we may conceive something of the intensity of the force with which this system ...
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... land and articles of consumption , the land bearing rather the largest share ; but since that era , nearly thirteen millions annually of new taxes have been thrown upon consumption . The conse- quence of which has been a constant ...
... land and articles of consumption , the land bearing rather the largest share ; but since that era , nearly thirteen millions annually of new taxes have been thrown upon consumption . The conse- quence of which has been a constant ...
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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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