Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790, v1 rescore)

It may not be unnecessary to inform the reader that the following Reflections had their origin in a correspondence between the author and a very young gentleman at Paris, who did him the honor of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions which then, and ever since have, so much occupied the attention of all men

书信体例开篇 + 法国大革命震荡的"私小说"开端 + 论战体的 18 世纪典范。

It is because I do so that I think it necessary for me that there should be no mistake. Those who cultivate the memory of our Revolution, and those who are attached to the Constitution of this kingdom, will take good care how they are involved with persons who, under the pretext of zeal towards the Revolution and Constitution, too frequently wander from their true principles

反革命警告 + 维护英国 1688 Glorious Revolution 与法国 1789 革命作区分的双轨论。

I certainly have the honor to belong to more clubs than one in which the Constitution of this kingdom and the principles of the glorious Revolution are held in high reverence; and I reckon myself among the most forward in my zeal for maintaining that Constitution and those principles in their utmost purity and vigor

革命社会 (Revolution Society) + 宪政社会 (Constitutional Society) 两伦敦俱乐部作论战靶子。

Am I to congratulate a highwayman and murderer who has broke prison upon the recovery of his natural rights? This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys, and their heroic deliverer, the metaphysic Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance

Cervantes 塞万提斯反讽 + Don Quixote 骑士道比喻,法国大革命元物理学家 (metaphysic) = 现代堂吉诃德。

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,--glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendor and joy

Marie Antoinette 命运挽歌 + 18 世纪英国古典散文典范 + 反革命浪漫主义代表段落。

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom!

骑士道挽歌母命题 + 18 世纪欧洲文明丧钟 + 反经济学 (économistes) + 反理论家 (sophisters) 双反命题。

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind

小团队公民教育母命题 + 反抽象个人主义 + 现代社群主义 (Communitarianism) 远祖。

This Assembly has hardly a year's prescription. We have ancestors—we have those venerable forebears—that we may call into council

处方性宪法 (prescriptive constitution) 母命题 + 反国民制宪 + 1000 年渐进论。