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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... wish myself to be solicited about them . They are of too little consequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld . It was from attention to you , and to you only , that I hesitated at the time , when you first desired to ...
... wish myself to be solicited about them . They are of too little consequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld . It was from attention to you , and to you only , that I hesitated at the time , when you first desired to ...
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... wish to communicate more largely , what was at first intended only for your private satisfac- tion . I shall still keep your affairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in the freedom of epis- tolary ...
... wish to communicate more largely , what was at first intended only for your private satisfac- tion . I shall still keep your affairs in my eye , and continue to address myself to you . Indulging myself in the freedom of epis- tolary ...
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... wish to separate the sermon from the resolution , they know how to acknowledge the one , and to dis- avow the other . They may do it : I cannot . For my part , I looked on that sermon as the public declara- tion of a man much connected ...
... wish to separate the sermon from the resolution , they know how to acknowledge the one , and to dis- avow the other . They may do it : I cannot . For my part , I looked on that sermon as the public declara- tion of a man much connected ...
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... wishes ) owes his crown to the choice of his people , yet nothing can evade their full explicit declaration , concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to ...
... wishes ) owes his crown to the choice of his people , yet nothing can evade their full explicit declaration , concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to ...
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... wish , in effect to recall King James , or to deluge their country in blood , and again to bring their religion , laws , and liberties into the peril they had just escaped , it was an act of necessity , in the strictest moral sense in ...
... wish , in effect to recall King James , or to deluge their country in blood , and again to bring their religion , laws , and liberties into the peril they had just escaped , it was an act of necessity , in the strictest moral sense in ...
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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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