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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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A landmark conservative response to the French Revolution, tradition, reform, rights, and political order.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France is Edmund Burke’s influential political work on revolution, inherited institutions, social continuity, constitutional liberty, and the risks of abstract political theory. This original English edition is aimed at readers of political philosophy, history of conservatism, and eighteenth-century public debate.
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Edmund Burke died in 1797, and Reflections on the Revolution in France was first published in 1790. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English source text.
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- 01Full text
- 02REFLECTIONS
- 03ON THE
- 04REVOLUTION IN FRANCE,
- 05THE PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN
- 06LONDON RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT:
- 07IN A LETTER
- 08INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN IN PARIS.
- 09REFLECTIONS
- 10ON
- 11THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.
- 12act of necessity to countenance the idea of an hereditary succession is
- 13act as if you had never been moulded into civil society, and had
- 14book-keepers of politics finding democracy still in debt, but by no
- 15act of proscription. It has opened, and will more and more open, their
- 16act of Parliament. Had fate reserved him to our times, four technical
- 17act, and the authority of those by whom it was done. In order to force
- 18FOOTNOTES:
- 19P. 23, 23, 24.
- 20END OF VOL. III.
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