Reflections on the Revolution in FranceCosimo, Inc., 1 sty 2008 - 264 Reflections on the Revolution in France is the most famous and popular work of Irish political writer and statesman EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), whose 12-volume set of collected works has long been considered one of the most influential anthologies of political philosophy in the English language. Reflections, included in Volume III of that set, is significant enough to warrant its own separate publication here. Although Burke supported many liberal movements, such as the right of self-rule of the American colonies and of Ireland, he did not support the French Revolution: he believed the uprising was based on faulty notions that did not properly account for the pitfalls of human nature, and this, he predicted, would lead the revolutionaries to disaster. And indeed, the Revolution did lead to the Reign of Terror and eventually Napoleon Bonaparte. Students of history and philosophy will find Burke's arguments as provocative as his contemporaries did. |
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... concerning several material points in your late transactions . You imagined , when you wrote last , that I might possibly be reckoned among the approvers of certain proceedings in France , from the solemn public seal of sanction they ...
... concerning several material points in your late transactions . You imagined , when you wrote last , that I might possibly be reckoned among the approvers of certain proceedings in France , from the solemn public seal of sanction they ...
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... concerning private management , I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty , but what is public . For one , I should be sorry to be thought , directly or indi- rectly , concerned in their proceedings . I certainly take my full share ...
... concerning private management , I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty , but what is public . For one , I should be sorry to be thought , directly or indi- rectly , concerned in their proceedings . I certainly take my full share ...
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... concerning the doctrine which may be taught in them . His zeal is of a curious character . It is not for the propagation of his own opinions , but of any opinions . It is not for the diffusion of truth , but for the spreading of ...
... concerning the doctrine which may be taught in them . His zeal is of a curious character . It is not for the propagation of his own opinions , but of any opinions . It is not for the diffusion of truth , but for the spreading of ...
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... concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to . All the oblique insinuations concerning election bottom in this proposition , and are referable to it . Lest ...
... concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to . All the oblique insinuations concerning election bottom in this proposition , and are referable to it . Lest ...
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... concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational , and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy . If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which ...
... concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational , and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy . If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke,Alan Wolfe,Darrin M. McMahon,Conor Cruise O'Brien,Jack N. Rakove Podgląd niedostępny - 2003 |
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