Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Burke BURKE is certainly one of the great names of the eighteenth century ; but just as he once asked of another political philosopher with a style : " Who now reads Bolingbroke ? " so might we inquire : " Who now reads Burke ? " For I ...
... Burke BURKE is certainly one of the great names of the eighteenth century ; but just as he once asked of another political philosopher with a style : " Who now reads Bolingbroke ? " so might we inquire : " Who now reads Burke ? " For I ...
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... Burke the reactionary shattered the Whig power and fathered the Conservative Party of the nineteenth century . - We must begin by grasping the fact that for Burke the Revolution of 1688 was a revolution , in England , to end all others ...
... Burke the reactionary shattered the Whig power and fathered the Conservative Party of the nineteenth century . - We must begin by grasping the fact that for Burke the Revolution of 1688 was a revolution , in England , to end all others ...
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... Burke's attitude made him the spokesman for all the viciously reactionary forces of his age . His old enemy , George III , said that the Reflexions on the French Revolution was a book that every gentleman ought to read . With his own ...
... Burke's attitude made him the spokesman for all the viciously reactionary forces of his age . His old enemy , George III , said that the Reflexions on the French Revolution was a book that every gentleman ought to read . With his own ...
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