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Revolution in France, Reflections on the
Revolution in France, Reflections on the, by E. Burke, published 1790.
This treatise was provoked by a sermon preached by R. Price in Nov. 1789, in which he exulted in the French Revolution and asserted that the king of England owes his throne to the choice of the people, who are at liberty to cashier him for misconduct. Burke repudiates this constitutional doctrine, and contrasts the inherited rights of which the English are tenacious with the ‘rights of man’ of the French Revolutionaries, based on ‘extravagant and presumptuous speculations’, inconsistent with an ordered society and leading to poverty and chaos. The well-known eloquent passage on the downfall of Marie Antoinette leads to the lament that ‘the age of chivalry is gone…All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off’ in deference to ‘the new conquering empire of light and reason’. His general conclusion is that the defective institutions of the old regime should have been reformed, not destroyed. |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Revolution in France, Reflections on the." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Revolution in France, Reflections on the." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RevolutionnFrncRflctnsnth.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Revolution in France, Reflections on the." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RevolutionnFrncRflctnsnth.html |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke exemplified the ideology of conservatism. Part I refuted the claim of Dr Richard Price that the French revolutionaries were following the English revolutionaries of 1688, in demanding a right to determine their own constitutional system. On the contrary, the English Whigs had sought to protect the established Anglican constitution from subversion by James II, a Roman catholic. In Part II, Burke enumerated the false principles of the revolutionaries in France, including libertinism, egalitarianism, disrespect for private property, atheism, and, above all, rationalism. He feared that the spirit of Jacobinism, unless challenged, would sweep through Europe undermining all traditional institutions.
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JOHN CANNON. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-ReflectionsonthRvltnnFrnc.html JOHN CANNON. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-ReflectionsonthRvltnnFrnc.html |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke exemplified the ideology of conservatism. Part I refuted the claim of Dr Richard Price that the French revolutionaries were following the English revolutionaries of 1688, in demanding a right to determine their own constitutional system. In Part II, Burke enumerated the false principles of the revolutionaries in France, including libertinism, egalitarianism, disrespect for private property, atheism, and, above all, rationalism.
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JOHN CANNON. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-ReflectionsonthRvltnnFrnc.html JOHN CANNON. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-ReflectionsonthRvltnnFrnc.html |
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France, see Revolution in France.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ReflectionsonthRvltnnFrnc.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-ReflectionsonthRvltnnFrnc.html |
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