BURKE, E.: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Unabridged)

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Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Burke, Edmund, Author.

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Naxos Digital Services US.

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Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

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Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

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Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2020.

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Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 09 min., 41 sec. )

I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated... ( 08 min., 19 sec. )

On the forenoon of the fourth of November last... ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

Whatever may be the success of evasion... ( 11 min., 22 sec. )

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right... ( 10 min., 48 sec. )

The Princess Sophia was named in the act of... ( 07 min., 01 sec. )

The second claim of the Revolution Society is... ( 10 min., 38 sec. )

The third head of right asserted by the pulpit... ( 10 min., 37 sec. )

You might, if you pleased, have profited of our... ( 13 min., 46 sec. )

This unforced choice, this fond election of evil... ( 11 min., 09 sec. )

We know that the British House of Commons... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

When men of rank sacrifice all ideas of dignity... ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

I do not, my dear Sir, conceive you to be... ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

If this be your actual situation, compared to the... ( 07 min., 35 sec. )

You will smile here at the consistency of those... ( 08 min., 45 sec. )

If civil society be the offspring of convention... ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

The kind of anniversary sermons to which a great... ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

I find a preacher of the Gospel profaning... ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

Yielding to reasons at least as forcible as those... ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw... ( 12 min., 50 sec. )

Why do I feel so differently from the Reverend... ( 06 min., 37 sec. )

If it could have been made clear to me that the king... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold... ( 11 min., 37 sec. )

First I beg leave to speak of our Church... ( 10 min., 47 sec. )

To avoid, therefore, the evils of inconstancy... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

So tenacious are we of the old ecclesiastical modes... ( 11 min., 32 sec. )

With these ideas rooted in their minds... ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

By the vast debt of France a great moneyed interest... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

What had the clergy to do with these transactions? ( 10 min., 30 sec. )

If this representation of M. Necker was false... ( 12 min., 07 sec. )

When all the frauds, impostures, violences, rapines... ( 12 min., 18 sec. )

It is not universally true that France is a fertile... ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

In the present disappearance of coin, no person... ( 07 min., 34 sec. )

If these panegyrists are in earnest in their admiration... ( 07 min., 38 sec. )

It was with the same satisfaction I found that... ( 09 min., 12 sec. )

Such is the effect of the perversion of history... ( 12 min., 47 sec. )

In short, Sir, it seems to me that this new... ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

When the Anabaptists of Munster, in the sixteenth... ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

There are moments in the fortune of states, when... ( 07 min., 50 sec. )

In all the views of receipt, expenditure, and personal... ( 08 min., 59 sec. )

This letter is grown to a great length, though it is... ( 11 min., 20 sec. )

At once to preserve and to reform is quite another... ( 08 min., 36 sec. )

Men who undertake considerable things... ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

In all this process, which in its fundamental elements... ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

I see that these aristocratic masses are made upon... ( 08 min., 42 sec. )

I am afraid I have gone too far into their way of... ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

I wish, Sir, that you and my readers would give... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

As to the operation of the first (the confiscation...) ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

The truly melancholy part of the policy of... ( 08 min., 06 sec. )

To a person who takes a view of the whole... ( 10 min., 12 sec. )

Executive magistracy ought to be constituted in... ( 10 min., 57 sec. )

I hear that the persons who are called ministers... ( 11 min. )

The Assembly, indeed, promises that they will form... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

I cannot help pausing here for a moment, to reflect... ( 07 min., 59 sec. )

Such is the character and disposition of the... ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

It is besides to be considered, whether an Assembly... ( 08 min., 16 sec. )

The leaders teach the people to abhor and reject... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

Having concluded my few remarks on the... ( 08 min., 22 sec. )

We are next to see how they have conducted... ( 09 min., 37 sec. )

Their fanatical confidence in the omnipotence of... ( 11 min., 21 sec. )

In order to persuade the world of the bottomless... ( 11 min., 09 sec. )

But waiving all discussion on the parties who may... ( 09 minutes, 36 sec. )

But am I so unreasonable as to see nothing at all... ( 05 minches, 46 sec. )

Participant:

Addis, Matt, Reader -- Burke, Edmund, Author

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9781781983225

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