![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A few comments will be enough-possibly more than enough.Īs Payne says, there were contemporaries of Burke, “chiefly among the Foxite Whigs, who saw in the ‘Reflections’ the beginnings of a distorted view of things which in the ‘Regicide Peace’ letters culminated and amounted to lunacy.” It is a criticism that has often been repeated since then: Burke’s attack on the Revolution became simply hysterical. Payne has so thoroughly done that in his Introduction. There is no need to explain here the historical circumstances in which Burke wrote these works or the details of their composition and publication, since E. Letters on a Regicide Peace, his last published writings on the French Revolution and the policy toward it that he would have Great Britain follow. By Francis Canavan Editor’s Foreword VOLUME 3. ![]()
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