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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Edmund Burke. tion , grown torpid with the lazy enjoyment of sixty years security , and the still unanimating repose of public pros- perity . The Preacher found them all in the French revolu- tion . This inspires a juvenile warmth ...
Edmund Burke. tion , grown torpid with the lazy enjoyment of sixty years security , and the still unanimating repose of public pros- perity . The Preacher found them all in the French revolu- tion . This inspires a juvenile warmth ...
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... tion was beneficial . We are but too apt to consider things in the state in which we find them , without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced , and possibly may be upheld . Nothing is more certain , than ...
... tion was beneficial . We are but too apt to consider things in the state in which we find them , without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced , and possibly may be upheld . Nothing is more certain , than ...
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... tion , where facts are manufactured for the sake of show , and accommodated to produce , through the weakness of sympathy , a weeping effect . But Mr. Burke should recollect that he is writing history , and not plays ; and that his ...
... tion , where facts are manufactured for the sake of show , and accommodated to produce , through the weakness of sympathy , a weeping effect . But Mr. Burke should recollect that he is writing history , and not plays ; and that his ...
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