Reflections on the Revolution in FranceClarendon Press, 1898 - 384 |
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Strona vi
... English nation to its ancient principles , and at showing the folly and imprudence of the French political movement . Burke's in- dependence led him even to the extent of revolting from his own party . The great historical Whig party ...
... English nation to its ancient principles , and at showing the folly and imprudence of the French political movement . Burke's in- dependence led him even to the extent of revolting from his own party . The great historical Whig party ...
Strona viii
... English Nation , and indirectly to every citizen of the civilised world . In his early denunciations of the French Revolution , Burke stood almost alone . At first sight he appeared to have the most cherished of English traditions ...
... English Nation , and indirectly to every citizen of the civilised world . In his early denunciations of the French Revolution , Burke stood almost alone . At first sight he appeared to have the most cherished of English traditions ...
Strona ix
... English policy rests on the opinion of a reasonable democracy . The reader , in comparing the two volumes , will notice this difference in the tribunal to which the appeal is made . Public opinion in the last twenty years had gone ...
... English policy rests on the opinion of a reasonable democracy . The reader , in comparing the two volumes , will notice this difference in the tribunal to which the appeal is made . Public opinion in the last twenty years had gone ...
Strona x
... English policy . Democracy had grown from a possibility into a power . Whiggism , as a principle , had long been distrusted and discredited . With its decline had begun the discredit of all that it had idolised . The English ...
... English policy . Democracy had grown from a possibility into a power . Whiggism , as a principle , had long been distrusted and discredited . With its decline had begun the discredit of all that it had idolised . The English ...
Strona xii
... English thought and feeling on the sub- ject of Revolutions in general . On the applicability of these general views to the occasion of their enunciation , it is not necessary for the reader to form any definite judgment . Pro- perly ...
... English thought and feeling on the sub- ject of Revolutions in general . On the applicability of these general views to the occasion of their enunciation , it is not necessary for the reader to form any definite judgment . Pro- perly ...
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