![]() In the eternal debate between the ideal and the practical, the latter had never had a more powerful or moving advocate, nor one whose own ideals were higher.' ESTC T46573 & T122893 PMM 239 Todd 53a.Ĥ works in one volume, octavo (225 x 140mm). 's the Terror grew, Burke seemed almost to be a prophet. Burke was swift to point out the essential differences in the two movements: the American colonists had fought to preserve basic English liberties and institutions the French revolutionaries wished not only to eradicate the monarchy but to obliterate the most basic traditions. ![]() In 1789, a common perception of the French Revolution was that a freedom and potential stability might ensue similar to that which had been achieved by the American Revolution. ![]() ![]() 2 other 18th-century pamphlets.įirst edition, first impression of Burke’s famous condemnation of the French Revolution. Strictures on the new political tenets of the Rt. ![]()
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