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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... spirit of our constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions. Whoever came in, or however he came in, whether he obtained the crown by law, or by force, the heredi- tary succession was either continued or ...
... spirit of our constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions. Whoever came in, or however he came in, whether he obtained the crown by law, or by force, the heredi- tary succession was either continued or ...
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... spirit of change that is gone abroad ; the total con- tempt which prevails with you , and may come to prevail with us , of all antient institutions , when set in opposition to a present sense of convenience , or to the bent of a present ...
... spirit of change that is gone abroad ; the total con- tempt which prevails with you , and may come to prevail with us , of all antient institutions , when set in opposition to a present sense of convenience , or to the bent of a present ...
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... spirit of caution which pre-. 6 “That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitu- tion of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked ...
... spirit of caution which pre-. 6 “That King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitu- tion of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked ...
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Edmund Burke. circumstances, serves to show the spirit of caution which pre- dominated in the national councils, in a situation in which men irritated by oppression, and elevated by a triumph over it, are apt to abandon themselves to ...
Edmund Burke. circumstances, serves to show the spirit of caution which pre- dominated in the national councils, in a situation in which men irritated by oppression, and elevated by a triumph over it, are apt to abandon themselves to ...
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... 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 misconduct . " In that light. 7 P. 22, 23, 24. 8 See Blackstone's Magna Charta , printed at Oxford , 26 ...
... 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 misconduct . " In that light. 7 P. 22, 23, 24. 8 See Blackstone's Magna Charta , printed at Oxford , 26 ...
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