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Author(s): Burke, Edmund
Reader(s): Addis, Matt
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: History
Period: Classical
Catalogue No: NA0462
Barcode: 9781781983225
Release Date: 08/2020
BURKE, E.: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Unabridged)
Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites and the Crown. Burke tackles the new republic and its allegiance to principles such as liberty and equality, as well as its failure to recognise the complexities of human nature, society, and wisdom accumulated over time, contending that gradual change and adjustment is far better than immediate upheaval. Burke’s treatise later became the target of Thomas Paine’s own reflections on the French Revolution in Rights of Man, a devastating work that predicted more revolutions to come.
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1 | Reflections on the Revolution in France | 09:41 |
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2 | I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated… | 08:19 |
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3 | On the forenoon of the fourth of November last… | 11:41 |
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4 | Whatever may be the success of evasion… | 11:22 |
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5 | So far is it from being true that we acquired a right… | 10:48 |
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6 | The Princess Sophia was named in the act of… | 07:01 |
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7 | The second claim of the Revolution Society is… | 10:38 |
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8 | The third head of right asserted by the pulpit… | 10:37 |
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9 | You might, if you pleased, have profited of our… | 13:46 |
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10 | This unforced choice, this fond election of evil… | 11:09 |
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11 | We know that the British House of Commons… | 09:01 |
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12 | When men of rank sacrifice all ideas of dignity… | 06:14 |
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13 | I do not, my dear Sir, conceive you to be… | 08:41 |
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14 | If this be your actual situation, compared to the… | 07:35 |
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15 | You will smile here at the consistency of those… | 08:45 |
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16 | If civil society be the offspring of convention… | 09:22 |
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17 | The kind of anniversary sermons to which a great… | 10:26 |
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18 | I find a preacher of the Gospel profaning… | 10:18 |
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19 | Yielding to reasons at least as forcible as those… | 09:11 |
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20 | It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw… | 12:50 |
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21 | Why do I feel so differently from the Reverend… | 06:37 |
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22 | If it could have been made clear to me that the king… | 09:46 |
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23 | You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold… | 11:37 |
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24 | First I beg leave to speak of our Church… | 10:47 |
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25 | To avoid, therefore, the evils of inconstancy… | 09:56 |
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26 | So tenacious are we of the old ecclesiastical modes… | 11:32 |
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27 | With these ideas rooted in their minds… | 10:42 |
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28 | By the vast debt of France a great moneyed interest… | 10:27 |
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29 | What had the clergy to do with these transactions? | 10:30 |
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30 | If this representation of M. Necker was false… | 12:07 |
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31 | When all the frauds, impostures, violences, rapines… | 12:18 |
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32 | It is not universally true that France is a fertile… | 10:14 |
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33 | In the present disappearance of coin, no person… | 07:34 |
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34 | If these panegyrists are in earnest in their admiration… | 07:38 |
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35 | It was with the same satisfaction I found that… | 09:12 |
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36 | Such is the effect of the perversion of history… | 12:47 |
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37 | In short, Sir, it seems to me that this new… | 11:45 |
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38 | When the Anabaptists of Munster, in the sixteenth… | 08:39 |
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39 | There are moments in the fortune of states, when… | 07:50 |
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40 | In all the views of receipt, expenditure, and personal… | 08:59 |
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41 | This letter is grown to a great length, though it is… | 11:20 |
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42 | At once to preserve and to reform is quite another… | 08:36 |
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43 | Men who undertake considerable things… | 10:18 |
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44 | In all this process, which in its fundamental elements… | 08:02 |
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45 | I see that these aristocratic masses are made upon… | 08:42 |
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46 | I am afraid I have gone too far into their way of… | 10:51 |
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47 | I wish, Sir, that you and my readers would give… | 09:51 |
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48 | As to the operation of the first (the confiscation…) | 08:57 |
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49 | The truly melancholy part of the policy of… | 08:06 |
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50 | To a person who takes a view of the whole… | 10:12 |
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51 | Executive magistracy ought to be constituted in… | 10:57 |
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52 | I hear that the persons who are called ministers… | 11:00 |
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53 | The Assembly, indeed, promises that they will form… | 09:28 |
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54 | I cannot help pausing here for a moment, to reflect… | 07:59 |
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55 | Such is the character and disposition of the… | 09:31 |
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56 | It is besides to be considered, whether an Assembly… | 08:16 |
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57 | The leaders teach the people to abhor and reject… | 10:50 |
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58 | Having concluded my few remarks on the… | 08:22 |
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59 | We are next to see how they have conducted… | 09:37 |
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60 | Their fanatical confidence in the omnipotence of… | 11:21 |
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61 | In order to persuade the world of the bottomless… | 11:09 |
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62 | But waiving all discussion on the parties who may… | 09:36 |
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63 | But am I so unreasonable as to see nothing at all… | 05:46 |
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Total Playing Time: 10:17:09