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Review: Reflections on the Revolution in FranceUser Review - Iris - GoodreadsReflections on the Revolution in France is Edmund Burke's answer to a young Frenchman's request for his thoughts on the French Revolution. Written during the early years of the Revolution, many of ... Read full review Review: Reflections on the Revolution in FranceUser Review - sologdin - GoodreadsA turgid, incoherent, mean-spirited confusion of barely readable proto-teabaggery and ancient dogmatic douchebaggery. Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, without captions or other markers ... Read full review Related books
Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesamongst antient appear archbishop of Paris army assignats Atheists authority become body called canton cause character choice church citizens civil clergy common conduct confiscation constitution contrivances crimes crown declared degrade despotism destroy ecclesiastical election England equal establishment estates evil executive government existence expence fame favour France Gallican church gentlemen habits hereditary honour house of commons house of lords human interest justice king king of France kingdom landed legislators liberty mankind means ment military mind ministers monarchy moral municipalities national assembly nature never nobility obedience object Old Jewry opinion Paris parliament persons political possessed preserve principles reason reform religion render representation republic revenue Revolution ruin scheme shew society sort sovereign spirit thing Third Estate tical tion tism true vices virtue wealth whilst whole wholly wisdom Popular passagesPage 117 - Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have in this European world of ours depended for ages upon two principles, and were indeed the result of both combined: I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion. Page 48 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Page 13 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Page 47 - Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. Page 133 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through? Page 353 - To make a government requires no great prudence. Settle the seat of power, teach obedience, and the work is done. To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide ; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind. Page 143 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. Page 246 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. Page 127 - ... dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. Page 113 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. References from web pagesReflections on the Revolution in France - Wikipedia, the free ... Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France Reflections on the Revolution in France: Information and Much More ... Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) Literary Encyclopedia: Reflections on the Revolution in France The Sheila Variations: The Books: "Reflections on the Revolution ... Reflections on the Revolution in Franc by Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 1790 JSTOR: Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Bibliographic information
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