Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.) Half-title: American conservative thought in the twentieth century. |
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... Burke's break with Charles James Fox in 1791 may be taken as a kind of symbol of the division then opening in the West itself , and I think that Burke himself so understood it . Burke , of course , had always been known as an advocate ...
... Burke's break with Charles James Fox in 1791 may be taken as a kind of symbol of the division then opening in the West itself , and I think that Burke himself so understood it . Burke , of course , had always been known as an advocate ...
Page 464
... Burke to our own times we would consider him a moderate and a reformer , humanitarian in his sympathies ; he was ... Burke's principles did not change , but the deep transformation of the world cast him into an entirely different role ...
... Burke to our own times we would consider him a moderate and a reformer , humanitarian in his sympathies ; he was ... Burke's principles did not change , but the deep transformation of the world cast him into an entirely different role ...
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... Burke views man as naturally involved with links , and he considers that as those links dissolve , man's identity does too . One such link in Burke's thought is the link in time . “ Peo- ple will not look forward to posterity , " he ...
... Burke views man as naturally involved with links , and he considers that as those links dissolve , man's identity does too . One such link in Burke's thought is the link in time . “ Peo- ple will not look forward to posterity , " he ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
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