Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Sprache:

Englisch

Status:

Complete work

Autorschaft:

Written by the author

presented to CLlux iCiliraru xA the llniiuTsity nf (Lin* onto lu. Mrs. T. E. Knowlton in 2011 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsonreOOburk fS REFLECTIONS REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON Tilt PROCEEDINGS OF CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON, RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE. LONDON: HENRY WASHBOURNE, SALISBURY SQUARE, FLEET STREET; FRASER & CO., EDINBURGH. MDCCCXXXVI. f A MHK1DGE: INTED BY METCALFE AM) 1'AIMER, ST. MARY's STREEl PREFACE. It may not be unnecessary to inform the reader, that the following Reflections had their origin in a cor- respondence between the Author and a very young gentleman at Paris, who did him the honour of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written some time in the month of October 1789; but it was kept back upon prudential considerations. That letter is alluded to in the beginning of the following sheets. It has been since forwarded to the person to whom it was addressed. The reasons for the delay in sending it were assigned in a short letter to the same gentleman. This produced on his part a new and pressing application for the Author's sentiments. The Author began a second and more full dis- cussion on the subject. This lie had some thoughts of publishing early in the last spring; but the matter gaining upon him, he found that what he had undertaken not only far exceeded the measure of a letter, but that its importance required rather a more detailed consideration than at that time he had any leisure to bestow upon it. However, having thrown down his first thoughts in the form of a letter,

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