Burke Select Works (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Burke, Edmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334958599 ISBN 13 : 9781334958595

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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The autumn of 1795 opened a new scene in the great drama of French affairs. It witnessed the establishment of the Directory. Five years had now passed since Burke had published his famous denunciation of the French Revolution. Those five years had witnessed portents and convulsions transcending all living experience. The Revolution still existed: but it had passed through strange transformations. The monarchy had perished in attempting to compromise with the Revolution, The dethroned King had been tried and executed as a traitor. The Queen and the Princess Elizabeth had met the same fate. The Dauphin, a mere boy, had been slowly murdered in a prison. The King sbrothers, with the remnant of the anti-R evolutionary party, had fled from French soil to spread terror and indignation through Europe. Meanwhile, the destinies of France had been shaped by successive groups of eager and unscrupulous politicians. Those whom Burke had early denounced had long disappeared. Necker was in exile: Mirabeau was dead: Lafayette was in an Austrian dungeon: Barnave and Bailly had perished on the scaffold. To their idle schemes of constitutional monarchy had succeeded the unmixed democracy of the Convention: and to themselves that fierce and desperate race in whom the spirit of the Revolution dwelt in all its fulness, and in whom posterity will ever regard it as personified the Dantons, the Huberts, the Marats, the Talliens, the Saint-J usts, the Santerres, and the Robespierres. The terrible story of the Convention is summed up in a few wor The Gironde and the Mountain had wrestled fiercely for 4fr: and the victory had fallen to the least moderate of theo.
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AN~CQmp1j~hed critic 1 has obsen'ed, with much truth, that the only specimen of Burke is 'all that he wrote,' because' every product: of his pen 'contains additional proofs of 'his power. Those who wish to understand the nature and Importance of his multifarious labours should make the acquaintance of his writings in the mass, and n'Thsterthem singlyhiri detail. It has long been understood that he ~vho gives his nights and days to this task will acquire a knowledge ofl1ie~princrple·s of general politics, 0(1hTHiiilt5tions whkh-Inodify those principles 'in our own national policy, of the questions with which that _p~licy deals, and of the secret of applying the English tongue to_their illustration, which cannot be acquired in any other way. In the prosecution of this task the student will Jearn -the practical importance of the maxim laid down in the Preface to a previous volume of this series, that all study, to be useful, must be pursued in a spirit of deference.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334958599
• ISBN 13: 9781334958595
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 452
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