"All your sophisters cannot produce any thing better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for the great conservatories and magazines of our rights and privileges."
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)].