Reflections on the Revolution in FranceClarendon Press, 1898 - 384 |
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Strona vii
... never be a politician , though he may be a hero and a martyr . Abstract truths , when embodied in the form of popular opinion , sometimes prove to be moral falsehoods . And popular opinion in the majority of cases proves to be a ...
... never be a politician , though he may be a hero and a martyr . Abstract truths , when embodied in the form of popular opinion , sometimes prove to be moral falsehoods . And popular opinion in the majority of cases proves to be a ...
Strona viii
... never said a truer thing than that the Revolution of 1688 was ' a revolution not made , but prevented . ' The vast convulsions of 1789 and the following years were ill - understood by the Foxite Whigs . Pent in their own narrow circle ...
... never said a truer thing than that the Revolution of 1688 was ' a revolution not made , but prevented . ' The vast convulsions of 1789 and the following years were ill - understood by the Foxite Whigs . Pent in their own narrow circle ...
Strona xiv
... never have occupied Burke's pen . But the Revolutionists had aiders and abettors on this side of the Channel , and they openly avowed their purpose of bringing about a catastrophe similar to that which had been brought about in France ...
... never have occupied Burke's pen . But the Revolutionists had aiders and abettors on this side of the Channel , and they openly avowed their purpose of bringing about a catastrophe similar to that which had been brought about in France ...
Strona xvi
... never lack exponents . ancient tale , and in a certain sense , a tale of wrong ; but whilst the human species maintains its vantage above the lower animals , it is a wrong that will never be completely righted . In Burke's view , it is ...
... never lack exponents . ancient tale , and in a certain sense , a tale of wrong ; but whilst the human species maintains its vantage above the lower animals , it is a wrong that will never be completely righted . In Burke's view , it is ...
Strona xx
... never shaken . He had lived on terms of intimacy with , and was bound by ties of mutual obligation to some of the worthiest members of the British aristocracy . It is mainly to them personally that his panegyric is applicable . Nobility ...
... never shaken . He had lived on terms of intimacy with , and was bound by ties of mutual obligation to some of the worthiest members of the British aristocracy . It is mainly to them personally that his panegyric is applicable . Nobility ...
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