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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1790
"The worst of these politics of revolution is this; they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1790
"In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated absurdity of the human mind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in an hundred of the people of England would not prefer to impiety."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)