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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Edmund Burke. your imaginations would have realized in them a standard of virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour ; and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Respecting your forefathers ...
Edmund Burke. your imaginations would have realized in them a standard of virtue and wisdom , beyond the vulgar practice of the hour ; and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired . Respecting your forefathers ...
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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 pro- tected , 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 pro- tected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
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... virtue and wis- dom of a whole people collected into a focus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only mysterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
... virtue and wis- dom of a whole people collected into a focus , would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect . Instead of blameable , they would appear only mysterious . But no name , no power , no function ...
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... virtue , they should be actuated by sinister ambition and a lust of meretricious glory , then the feeble part of the Assembly , to whom at first they conform , becomes in its turn the dupe and instrument of their designs . In this ...
... virtue , they should be actuated by sinister ambition and a lust of meretricious glory , then the feeble part of the Assembly , to whom at first they conform , becomes in its turn the dupe and instrument of their designs . In this ...
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... virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were some corrective to their effects . Such ... virtue , all the rewards , all the dis- tinctions , remained . But your present confusion , like a palsy , has ...
... virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were some corrective to their effects . Such ... virtue , all the rewards , all the dis- tinctions , remained . But your present confusion , like a palsy , has ...
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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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