It quotes Horace in its evocation of the South Sea Bubble and ends with a passage that expresses the sentiment that all the author has to recommend his ideas is "long observation and impartiality."
It quotes Horace in its evocation of the South Sea Bubble and ends with a passage that expresses the sentiment that all the author has to recommend his ideas is "long observation and impartiality." Ostensibly provoked by a Richard Price sermon, it rails against "the Old Jewry" and sings the praises of society's "little platoons of association." Much of the beginning seeks to differentiate recent happenings from the adoption of the Petition of Right and describes a "profane burlesque" turning what was once the National Assembly upside down. Many of the author's earlier supporters—particularly Thomas Paine, who attacked it in The Rights of Man—thought that he betrayed his egalitarian principles. For ten points identify this work that argued for reform of the old regime rather than the titular alternative, the masterwork of Edmund Burke.
It quotes Horace in its evocation of the South Sea Bubble and ends with a passage that expresses the sentiment that all the author has to recommend his ideas is "long observation and impartiality."
{Reflections on the French Revolution} or {Reflections on the Revolution in France}