![]() ![]() It created a reaction against the revolution it divided Englishmen into two parties and did much to ruin the whigs… Abroad the Reflections created no less stir than at home, and Burke received the compliments of different foreign sovereigns” (DNB). “The effect of the Reflections was extraordinary. This it was which provoked the Reflections” (PMM 239). His anger and disgust were exacerbated by the dread that the aims, principles, methods and language which he detested in France might infect the people of England. To Burke an absorption with the end and neglect of the means was the most dreadful of sins. ![]() “One of the most brilliant of all polemics… It is not to be wondered at that a man who desired justice for America but rejected Jefferson’s doctrines would be deeply stirred by the events of 1789. The work that precipitated Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man. Octavo, contemporary full marbled calf rebacked retaining original black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers.įirst edition of Burke’s important and controversial attack on the French Revolution. Reflections on the Revolution in France, And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. “ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT OF ALL POLEMICS”: FIRST EDITION OF BURKE’S ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONīURKE, Edmund. ![]()
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