Reflections on the Revolution in FranceOxford University Press, 1993 - 326 This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France displays an acute awareness of how high political stakes can be, as well as a keen ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. |
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... liberty , is good ; yet could I , in common sense , ten years ago , have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) without enquiry what the nature of that government was , or how it was ...
... liberty , is good ; yet could I , in common sense , ten years ago , have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) without enquiry what the nature of that government was , or how it was ...
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... liberty . In some people I see great liberty indeed ; in many , if not in the most , an oppressive degrading servitude . But what is liberty without wisdom , and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is ...
... liberty . In some people I see great liberty indeed ; in many , if not in the most , an oppressive degrading servitude . But what is liberty without wisdom , and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is ...
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... liberty , I am sure I do not despise . They warm the heart ; they enlarge and liberalise our minds ; they animate our courage in a time of conflict . Old as I am , I read the fine raptures of Lucan and Corneille * with pleasure ...
... liberty , I am sure I do not despise . They warm the heart ; they enlarge and liberalise our minds ; they animate our courage in a time of conflict . Old as I am , I read the fine raptures of Lucan and Corneille * with pleasure ...
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Letter to a Member of the National Assembly | 251 |
Explanatory Notes | 293 |
Index | 323 |
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