Comments on: The Marquis de Custine: The Grouchier, Gayer Tocqueville of Russia http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/helen-rittelmeyer/2012/10/25/the-marquis-de-custine-the-grouchier-gayer-tocqueville-of-russia/ Sat, 18 May 2013 11:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Tenney http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/helen-rittelmeyer/2012/10/25/the-marquis-de-custine-the-grouchier-gayer-tocqueville-of-russia/#comment-4028 Mark Tenney Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:31:42 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/helen-rittelmeyer/2012/10/25/the-marquis-de-custine-the-grouchier-gayer-tocqueville-of-russia/#comment-4028 Brilliant article. You really have a deep knowledge to write this. Reading this article, I feel as ignorant of what I should know as the ordinary person must feel all the time. This is a feeling I seldom have and thank you for letting me feel it.

]]> By: Withywindle http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/helen-rittelmeyer/2012/10/25/the-marquis-de-custine-the-grouchier-gayer-tocqueville-of-russia/#comment-4020 Withywindle Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:11:28 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/helen-rittelmeyer/2012/10/25/the-marquis-de-custine-the-grouchier-gayer-tocqueville-of-russia/#comment-4020 Thanks for the shout-out! Enjoying your blog, although generally silently. (Perhaps I should instead ply you with indirect and ingenious praise?)

Brief note on Hastings: are you comparing the Hastings prosecution with Reflections? As I recollect, the prosecution precedes Reflections; and that Burke surprised liberals by becoming more (apparently) conservative re France, not vice versa.

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