edmund burke thoughts on the french revolution

Burke may undesignedly be an instrument of its promotion, by agitating questions which have for a time lain dormant in England, and have been almost forgotten, or artfully disguised, in America. Whatever convulsions 〈◊〉 yet be occasioned by the revolution in France, it will doubtless be favourable to general liberty, and Mr.

The celebrity of the author precludes the necessity of an introduction to any of her works, and the truths contained in her observations might be their best recommendation, even though she had thought proper to prefix her name.Ī people who have recently and severely struggled for the security of their rights, cannot be inattentive to the arguments that support them, however some, from the versability of the human character, and the in|stability of man, may be ready to relinquish them. It has happened to fall into very few hands on this side the Atlantick, therefore a repub|lication will doubtless gratify every American, who has not lost sight of those principles that actuated, and the perseverance that effected, the in|dependence of America. Burke's celebrated Philippick, have been read with avidity in America, while a pamphlet of equal merit has escaped the publick eye. PRIESTLEY, Paine, and other observers on Mr.

Edmund burke thoughts on the french revolution