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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1790
Pages
Pages 200

A statesman watches France tear down its old order and warns that a society is a contract between the dead, the living and the unborn, not a machine to be rebuilt overnight.

Half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink.
Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

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