Reflections on The Revolution in France And Other WritingsBy: Edmund Burke Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Amid the 18th centurys golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burkes controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him first a marginal figure, and finally a revered theorist a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects of British rule in Ireland, the loss of the American colonies, and most famously, he foresaw the