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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... France was by them , even at that period , estimated at twenty - two millions of souls . At the end of the last century it had been generally calculated at eighteen . On either of these estimations France was not ill- peopled . Mr ...
... France was by them , even at that period , estimated at twenty - two millions of souls . At the end of the last century it had been generally calculated at eighteen . On either of these estimations France was not ill- peopled . Mr ...
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... France , very remote from the portrait of a country whose government was a perfect grievance , an absolute evil , ad- mitting no cure but through the violent and uncertain remedy of a total revolution . He affirms , that from the year ...
... France , very remote from the portrait of a country whose government was a perfect grievance , an absolute evil , ad- mitting no cure but through the violent and uncertain remedy of a total revolution . He affirms , that from the year ...
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... France , states the quantity of gold and silver in France , at about eighty- eight millions sterling . In doing this , he has , I presume , divided by the difference of exchange , instead of the stand- ard of twenty - four livres to a ...
... France , states the quantity of gold and silver in France , at about eighty- eight millions sterling . In doing this , he has , I presume , divided by the difference of exchange , instead of the stand- ard of twenty - four livres to a ...
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