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	Encyclopedia: Reflections on the Revolution in France
		Reflections on the Revolution in France is a work of political commentary written by Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, first published on 1 November 1790.
		Burke's critics made much of the intemperate language he used to attack the leaders of the French Revolution, his eulogizing of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, and the various factual inaccuracies concerning specific events in France and the political arrangements of the new constitution in that country.
		The situation changed after many of Burke's predictions for the outcome of the French Revolution came true: the execution of Louis XVI and his wife was followed by the Reign of Terror during which hundreds of thousands of citizens were arrested and tens of thousands executed for political offenses.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reflections-on-the-Revolution-in-France (2435 words)

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		Unquestionably, there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a principle from a law made in a special case and regarding an individual person.
		France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the cabinets of princes, and disarmed it of its most potent topics.
		The gentlemen of the Revolution Society, who were so early in their congratulations, appear to be strongly of opinion that there is some scheme of politics relative to this country in which your proceedings may, in some way, be useful.
	eserver.org /18th/burke.txt (17076 words)

	Burke, Edmund. 1909–14. Reflections on the French Revolution. Vol. 24, Part 3. The Harvard Classics
		Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
		And on the Proceeding in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris.
		Written immediately after the French Revolution, Burke’s primary antirevolutionary work questions the motives of the actors and warns against the pulling down of all that is good in society with the bad, which would prove amazingly prophetic.
	www.bartleby.com /24/3 (135 words)

	Reflections on The Revolution 2
		If the king and queen of France, and their children, were to fall into our hands by the chance of war, in the most acrimonious of all hostilities (I deprecate such an event, I deprecate such hostility), they would be treated with another sort of triumphal entry into London.
		Perhaps persons unacquainted with the state of France, on hearing the clergy and the noblesse were privileged in point of taxation, may be led to imagine that, previous to the Revolution, these bodies had contributed nothing to the state.
		France far exceeds England in the multitude of her people, but I apprehend that her comparative wealth is much inferior to ours, that it is not so equal in the distribution, nor so ready in the circulation.
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	Modern History Sourcebook: Edmund Burke: Reflections 1791
		His Reflections, written in the form of a long letter in 1791, in a sense marks the origin of modern conservative thought.
		Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution [of 1688-Ed.] have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure; if the had been able to contrive no better remedy against arbitrary power than civil confusion.
		Compute your gains: see what is got by those extravagant and presumptuous speculations which have taught your leaders to despise all their predecessors, and all their contemporaries, and even to despise themselves, until the moment in which they became truly despicable.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1791burke.html (4761 words)

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		Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event (English Library)
		He does not only decry the excesses of the French Revolution; he is prepared to credit it with its gains although lamenting the manner of their achievement.
		Burke's "reflections" are especially potent since they not only provide a common sense defense of Conservative values but allow one to examine the consequences of ignoring those values, vis-à-vis the French Revolution.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140432043 (1712 words)

	Burke: Select Works of Edmund Burke, Vol. 2, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Front Matter: Library of ...
		He believed himself to foresee whither the revolutionary movement in France was tending: he saw one party in England regarding it with favour, the other with indifference: he saw clear revolutionary tendencies on all sides among the people: and not a single arm was as yet raised to avert the impending catastrophe.
		While the events of the French Revolution commended themselves to the leaders of his party, he ought not to have allowed it to be seen that they aroused in him nothing but anger and scorn; nor ought he to have appealed to the nation at large to support him in his opposition.
		Unfair as this denunciation was to France, we sympathise in its effects on the malcontents in England.
	www.econlib.org /library/LFBooks/Burke/brkSWv2c0.html (15312 words)

	REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
		They acted by the ancient organized states in the shape of their old organization, and not by the organic molecule of a disbanded people.
		Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom if they had found no security for their freedom but in rendering their government feeble in its operations, and precarious in its tenure; if they had been able to contrive no better remedy against arbitrary power than civil confusion.
		COMPUTE your gains: see what is got by those extravagant and presumptuous speculations which have taught your leaders to despise all their predecessors, and all their contemporaries, and even to despise themselves until the moment in which they become truly despicable.
	www.rvc.cc.il.us /faclink/pruckman/phil/Reflections.html (16979 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
		Then came the French Revolution and it was blithely assumed that here again Liberty was on the march.
		In a sense, he has finally won his argument with the defenders of the French Revolution, two hundred years after the fact, and is reaping the spoils.
		But beginning with the French Revolution, this fissure separated the regnant liberal forces into two competing camps, setting the stage for the two century long contest that ended in the early 1990's with the fall of the Soviet Union.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/741 (2035 words)

	Burke, Further Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791-97) - Letter to Member: The Online Library of Liberty
		But the deluded people of France are like other madmen, who, to a miracle, bear hunger, and thirst, and cold, and confinement, and the chains and lash of their keeper, whilst all the while they support themselves by the imagination that they are generals of armies, prophets, kings, and emperors.
		I mean their scheme of educating the rising generation, the principles which they intend to instil, and the sympathies which they wish to form in the mind, at the season in which it is the most susceptible.
		The great object of your tyrants, is to destroy the gentlemen of France; and for that purpose they destroy, to the best of their power, all the effect of those relations which may render considerable men powerful or even safe.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/LFBooks/Burke0061/FurtherReflections/HTMLs/0006_Pt04_Letter91.html (12468 words)

	Reflections on The Revolution
		in all their reasonings on the Revolution of 1688, have a revolution which happened in England about forty years before and the late French revolution, so much before their eyes and in their hearts that they are constantly confounding all the three together.
		They are bound to do so by the laws of their country made at the time of that very Revolution which is appealed to in favor of the fictitious rights claimed by the Society which abuses its namright "to choose our own governors, to cashier them for misconduct, and to form a government for ourselves".
		you are now in the crisis of a revolution and in the transit from one form of government to another- you cannot see that character of men exactly in the same situation in which we see it in this country.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Revolution
		The influence of freemasonry in the French Revolution proclaimed by Louis Blanc and by freemasonry itself is proved by the researches of M. Cochin.
		Hitherto a large section of the lesser clergy had shown a certain amount of sympathy for the Revolution, but when it was seen that the episcopal members of the Assembly refused to take the oath, thus sacrificing their sees, a number of the priests followed this disinterested example.
		Disorder grew in the Church of France; young and ambitious priests, better known for their political than for their religious zeal, were candidates, and in many places owing to the opposition of good Catholics those elected had much difficulty in taking possession of their churches.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13009a.htm (7795 words)

	Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
		, in all their reasonings on the Revolution of 1688, have a revolution which happened in England about forty years before and the late French revolution, so much before their eyes and in their hearts that they are constantly confounding all the three together.
		Perhaps the apprehensions our ancestors entertained of forming such a precedent as that "of cashiering for misconduct" was the cause that the declaration of the act, which implied the abdication of King James, was, if it had any fault, rather too guarded and too circumstantial.
		, you are now in the crisis of a revolution and in the transit from one form of government to another — you cannot see that character of men exactly in the same situation in which we see it in this country.
	www.constitution.org /eb/rev_fran.htm (17570 words)

	Edmund Burke biography: French Revolution reflections
		A young frenchman wrote to Burke towards the late summer of 1789, the year of the first appearance of revolution in France, inquiring of Burke for his lack of enthusism.
		This hugely influential text, which was read in numerous editions throughout Europe, encouraged European rulers in their hostility to the French Revolution.
		Burke's opposition to the way the Revolution seemed to be tending was based on his perception that various assaults on the pre-existing feudal order, be they as they may in line with reason, were nonetheless fatally destructive of the practically necessary and inherently valuable stability of civil society.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/edmund_burke.html (1477 words)

	Reflections on the Revolution in France
		As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one of the few lone voices of conservative government was that of Edmund Burke.
		He focused his keen eye on the social and political ramifications of egalitarianism and what its dissemination in France might mean for the future of the liberty, order, and political tradition that had served the Continent so well.
		His statement and defense of conservative principles against the onslaught of social liberation has carved for him a special place in the history of political theory.
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	Biographies: The Political Philosopher, Edmund Burke (1729-97).
		History lays the American Revolution at his feet, in that, "he was too ready to surrender his judgment to the king's" in adopting policies that were repugnant to the English colonials.]
		As the French armies move in to "liberate" Holland, it seems clear that England and France are moving towards war.
		In January, with Bonaparte having successfully invaded Italy and Spain coming in on the side of France, Britain withdrew her ships from the Mediterranean, which was to become a "French Lake" from January 1797 to May 1798.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Burke.htm (3857 words)

	Reflections on the Revolution in France
		Page numbers refer to Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event.
		"I wish to communicate more largely [than to one man, the crisis of France and even of Europe, namely that] all circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world" (92).
		[In France] Along with the monied interest, a new description of men had grown up with whom that interest soon formed a close and marked union; I mean the political men of letters.
	home.uchicago.edu /~ahkissel/burke.html (3727 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved.
		The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions.
		The Reflections on the Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192839780 (676 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Reflections on the Revolution in France--British Heritage Database Reader-Printable Edition by ...
		The answer lies in Reflections on the Revolution in France, which was first published in 1790; this BHD edition offers an accessible and accurate new setting of the Seventh Edition (also 1790).
		Anticipating the disorder yet to come and the rise to power of a military ruler, Burke mounts a searing attack on the radicalism of the revolution which had begun the previous year, and which he contrasts with Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688.
		With remorseless vigour he calls into question the principles, methods and capabilities of the revolutionaries and establishes his critique as the manifesto of the counter-revolution.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook24812.htm (204 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution
		Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth by M. Turgot, Comptroller General of the Finances of France, In 1774, 1775 and 1776.
		Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, short excerpts [At Clinch Valley College]
		Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, moderate length excerpts [At Baylor]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook13.html (619 words)

	October Revolution on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Reflections on the Revolution in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Book Description: The French Revolution is a defining moment in world history, and usually it has been first approached by English-speaking readers through the picture painted of it by Edmund Burke.
		Alone among recent versions, it reprints the text of the first edition of the Reflections, and shows how Burke amended it as his knowledge of the Revolution deepened.
		It situates the Reflections in Burke's life and the development of his ideas, the history of English political thought, the debate about the French Revolution, and the debate the book itself inspired.
	isbn.nu /0872200213 (460 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reflections on the Revolution by Edmund Burke on 4 pages
		Reflections on the Revolution in France by Conor Cruise O'Brien in Copyright, and Front Matter
		You must read Burke to understand the why it is worth being critical of the French Revolution and to understand some major reasons for the counter-revolutionary movement in France.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192839780?v=glance (694 words)

	Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is not necessary to guide; and only requires to let go the rein.
		But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraints in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
		[Source: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, vol.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/reflections.html (733 words)

	OUP: Reflections on the Revolution in France: Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Readership: General readers, students of political philosophy, politics, philosophy, history, literature and revolution at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
		Revolutions & coups; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries;
		The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-283978-0 (323 words)

	Anthony Paletta on Edmund Burke on National Review Online
		He may have spent the last 37 years of his life in Italy, France, and Switzerland.
		Having already established a day for that other famous author, Dublin could do worse than hold a “Burkesday.” He was born on January 12 (in 1729) and he died on July 9 (in 1797).
		And the chief entertainment is obvious: dramatic readings of Reflections on the Revolution in France.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/paletta200506160742.asp (860 words)

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