Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France

Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France
Author: Catharine Macaulay
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-12-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780484685900

Excerpt from Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France: In a Letter to the Right Hon. The Earl of Stanhope Two parties are already formed in this country, who behold the French Revolution with a very oppofite temper To the one, it infpires the fentiment of exultation and rapture; and to the other, indignation and foam. I [hall not take upon me to confider what are the fecret pallions which have given birth to thele laf'c fentiments; and (hall content myfelf with obferving, that Mr. Burke has undertaken to be the oracle of this laft party. The abilities of this gentleman have been fully acknowledged by the impatience with which t 'e publick have waited for his obferva tions and when we co fider that he has been in a manner edu gated in the great fchool of Parliament, that he has aflit'ted in the publick councils of the Englith nation for the greater part of his life, we muf't fuppofe him fully competent to the talk he has un dertaken, of cenfuring the politicks of our neighbour kingdom, and entering into an exaet definition of thofe native rights which equally attach themfelves to every defcription of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy

Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy
Author: Gregory M. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108489400

This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.

Edmund Burke, Volume II

Edmund Burke, Volume II
Author: F. P. Lock
Publisher: Writings & Speeches of Edmund
Total Pages: 645
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198206798

This volume explores the years from 1784 to 1797, and covers the most interesting years of Burke's life; the leading themes being India and the French Revolution. Burke was a key figure in shaping long-term British attitudes to both.

Historicizing the French Revolution

Historicizing the French Revolution
Author: Antonino De Francesco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350186929

This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also goes on to examine recent trends in French Revolution historiography and consider where histories of this landmark event may go in the future. By emphasizing the elements which have been valued or hidden, exalted or silenced, Historicizing the French Revolution shows how reflections on 1789 are always fundamentally tied to the times in which they are formulated. Antonino De Francesco looks at the ways in which these historical accounts can be seen to support and, at times, contrast with the formation of political modernity – both in national and international contexts – as it has taken shape in the hundreds of years that have followed this key moment in world history.

The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America

The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America
Author: Mark Fortier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317036646

Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortier’s bookThe Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006). The earlier volume traced the meanings and usage of equity in broad cultural terms (including but not limited to law) to position equity as a keyword of valuation, persuasion, and understanding; the present volume carries that work through the Restoration and eighteenth century in Britain and America. Fortier argues that equity continued to be a keyword, used and contested in many of the major social and political events of the period. Further, he argues that equity needs to be seen in this period largely outside the Aristotelian parameters that have generally been assumed in scholarship on equity.