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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... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a protected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
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... virtue . They can see , without pain or grudging , an Archbishop precede a Duke . They can see a Bishop of Durham , or a Bishop of Winchester , in possession of ten thousand pounds a year ; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands ...
... virtue . They can see , without pain or grudging , an Archbishop precede a Duke . They can see a Bishop of Durham , or a Bishop of Winchester , in possession of ten thousand pounds a year ; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands ...
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... virtue that may be exerted in it . As all great qualities of the mind which operate in public , and are not merely ... virtue . Public virtue , being of a nature magnificent and splendid , instituted for great things , and conversant ...
... virtue that may be exerted in it . As all great qualities of the mind which operate in public , and are not merely ... virtue . Public virtue , being of a nature magnificent and splendid , instituted for great things , and conversant ...
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