![]() ![]() since the year 1648”, a strain which saw judgement executed “‘on the heathen, and punishments upon the people to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron.’” Certainly after reading the sermon Burke “began to see the revolution as a British issue”, his target, as John Wale reasons, was “his own country’s response to the French Revolution and its sense of its own constitution as much as the events unfolding in France.” To this end, as Price was a radical Dissenter, it should be considered that to an extent Burke wrote Reflections as reflections on radicalism in Britain instead. ![]() Burke said of the sermon that it was “a strain which I believe has not been heard in this kingdom. Richard Price’s sermon, on 4 November 1789, on the anniversary of the Revolution of 1688, which was published as A Discourse on the Love of Our Country. As an alternative, it argued for upholding inherited rights and established customs and for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change, furthermore it deplored the influence that the Revolution might have had in Britain. Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France was an attack on the French Revolution and its attitudes towards existing institutions, property and religion. ![]()
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