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Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event
At least 22 entries in the ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1793).<br>
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See Edmund Burke, <u>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 Paris</u> (London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1790) &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107629894&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/K043880.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from ECCO-TCP and Past Masters.<br>
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Reading <u>Reflections on the Revolution in France</u>, ed. J. G. A. Pocock (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987). [Pocock identifies the definitive edition of Burke's <u>Reflections</u> as William B. Todd's (Rinehart Books, 1959)].