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Produktbild: Romanticism and Revolution

Romanticism and Revolution A Reader

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

21.02.2011

Herausgeber

Jon Mee + weitere

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

224

Maße (L/B/H)

24,7/17,4/1,4 cm

Gewicht

394 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4443-3044-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

21.02.2011

Herausgeber

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

224

Maße (L/B/H)

24,7/17,4/1,4 cm

Gewicht

394 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4443-3044-1

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Preface and Acknowledgements.
    A Note on the Texts.Introduction.

    1. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country.

    [What has the love of their country hitherto been among mankind?][A narrower interest must give way to a more extensive interest].

    [Every degree of illumination ... hastens the overthrow of priestcraft and tyranny].

    [The principles of the Revolution].

    [Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom and writers in its defence!]2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That Event.

    [All the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction].

    [The public declaration of a man much connected with literary caballers].

    [The two principles of conservation and correction].

    [The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror].

    [Our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers].

    [Their blow was aimed at an hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities].

    [A profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others].

    [The real rights of men].

    [But the age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded].

    [The real tragedy of this triumphal day].

    [We have not ... lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century].

    [Society is indeed a contract].

    [The political Men of Letters].

    [We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history].

    [By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little].

    [Old establishments ... are the results of various necessities and expediencies].

    [Some popular general ... shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself].

    3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.

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    [I have not yet learned to twist my periods, nor ... to disguise my sentiments].

    [I perceive ... that you have a mortal antipathy to reason].

    [The champion of property, the adorer of the golden image which power has set up].

    [Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells].

    [In reprobating Dr. Price s opinions you might have spared the man].

    [The younger children have been sacrificed to the eldest son].

    [The respect paid to rank and fortune damps every generous purpose of the soul].

    [The spirit of romance and chivalry is in the wane; and reason will gain by its extinction].

    [Reason at second-hand].

    [This fear of God makes me reverence myself].

    [The cold arguments of reason, that give no sex to virtue].

    [What were the outrages of a day to these continual miseries?].

    4. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke s Attack on the French Revolution.

    [The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave].

    [Mr. Burke has set up a sort of political Adam, in whom all posterity are bound for ever].

    [Mr. Burke does not attend to the distinction between men and principles].

    [The Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone].

    [Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity].

    [We are now got at the origin of man, and at the origin of his rights].

    [The natural rights of man ... the civil rights of man].

    [Governments must have arisen, either out of the people, or over the people].

    [Titles are but nick-names ... a sort of foppery in the human character which degrades it].

    [Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it].

    [The church with the state, a sort of mule animal].

    Miscellaneous Chapter.

    Conclusion.

    [In mixed Governments there is no responsibility].

    [The Revolutions of America and France, are a renovation of the natural order of things].

    [It is an age of Revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for].

    5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subje