Burke, Edmund:

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REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. IN A LETTER INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN IN ... An interesting volume of three works, including the second London edition of Burke's classic diatribe against the French Revolution and an American edition of his Lessons to a Young Prince.... Burke supported the American Revolution and the quest for liberties it entailed, without the destruction of fundamental government institutions, but he believed the French Revolution to be "one of the greatest calamities which has ever fallen upon mankind." He wrote Reflections... to counter sympathy for the Revolution which prevailed in England at that time. The American edition of Lessons... includes five ingenius copper plates which utilize pictorial diagrams to represent the various political constitutions of England and France, as well as of the "American States." A pleasing volume of political works from the revolutionary epoch.

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