Reflections on the Revolution in FranceCourier Corporation, 29 sie 2012 - 256 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It provoked an enormous reaction, both supportive and critical, with a flood of pamphlets and books (including Thomas Paine's enduring denunciation, The Rights of Man). Endlessly reprinted and studied by countless scholars and other readers, this is a classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought. Burke ranked among the era's most eloquent defenders of democracy; however, he also realized the dangers of unchecked liberty and that mob rule is in no way better than the reign of a king or dictator. His lucid and passionate manifesto, written in the form of letters, employs examples from the aftermath of the French Revolution to demonstrate the superiority of gradual political change over outright anti-authoritarian revolt. A believer in practicality rather than abstract theorizing, Burke articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that continues to resonate with twenty-first century readers. |
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... sort of choice; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people. Thus, by a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render their proposition safe, by rendering it nuga- tory. They are welcome to the asylum they seek for their ...
... sort of choice; and therefore he owes his crown to the choice of his people. Thus, by a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render their proposition safe, by rendering it nuga- tory. They are welcome to the asylum they seek for their ...
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... sort of immortality through all transmigrations—multosque per annos stat fortuna domus et avi numerantur avorum. This is the spirit of our constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions. Whoever came in, or ...
... sort of immortality through all transmigrations—multosque per annos stat fortuna domus et avi numerantur avorum. This is the spirit of our constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions. Whoever came in, or ...
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... sort of flippant vain discourse, in which, as in an unsavoury fume, sev- eral persons suffer the spirit of liberty to evaporate, if it were not plainly in support of the idea, and a part of the scheme, of " cashiering kings for ...
... sort of flippant vain discourse, in which, as in an unsavoury fume, sev- eral persons suffer the spirit of liberty to evaporate, if it were not plainly in support of the idea, and a part of the scheme, of " cashiering kings for ...
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... sort of provision towards render- ing him , as a servant , in any degree responsible . Our constitu- tion knows nothing of a magistrate like the Justicia of Arragon ; nor of any court legally appointed , nor of any process legally set ...
... sort of provision towards render- ing him , as a servant , in any degree responsible . Our constitu- tion knows nothing of a magistrate like the Justicia of Arragon ; nor of any court legally appointed , nor of any process legally set ...
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... sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mort- main for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pat- tern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which ...
... sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mort- main for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pat- tern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which ...
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