 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 460 sider
...only a few days after the taking of the Bastille we find Fox exultingly exclaim : — " How much it is the greatest event that ever happened in the world ! And how much the best ! " 8 And here, on the contrary, are some expressions of Burke a few weeks later, when writing to a... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1876 - 588 sider
...followed the same direction. After the taking of the Bastille, Fox exultingly exclaimed, " How much it is the greatest event that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!" Burke on the contrary wrote to one of his friends: " You hope I think the French worthy of liberty;... | |
 | Charles William Adam Tait - 1878 - 236 sider
...embarrassments. Summoning of the States-General and destruction of the Bastille. 1789. " How much is this the greatest event that ever happened in the world, and how much the best" 3 Pitt and the Revolution. Pp. 774—782. (a) Conversion of the States-General into a National Assembly... | |
 | M. J. Guest - 1879 - 700 sider
...sorrow and hatred of cruelty and oppression. When the Revolution began he cried enthusiastically, " How much is it the greatest event that ever happened in the world, and how much the best ! " 19. But after a year or two the French became so furious and committed such awful crimes that the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1879 - 568 sider
...only a few days after the taking of the Bastille we find Fox exultingly exclaim : — ' How much it is the greatest event that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!1 And here, on the contrary, are some expressions of Burke a few weeks later, when writing to... | |
 | James Franck Bright - 1880 - 740 sider
...to be ; to another party the hurried and irregular vehemence which had marked the changes in Prance seemed proof only of an anarchy shocking to all respect...possible approximation of the Government of France to a constitutional monarchy similar to that of England. The three years which elapsed between 1789 and... | |
 | 1881 - 868 sider
...remember that the fall of the Bastile in Paris called from him the exclamation : " How much is this the greatest event that ever happened in the world ; and how much the best I" A war which had arrayed against it as much of the commercial interest, of the political sagacity... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1881 - 864 sider
...remember that the fall of the Bastile in Paris called from him the exclamation : " How much is this the greatest event that ever happened in the world ; and how much the best !" A war which had arrayed against it as much of the commercial interest, of the political sagacity... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 sider
...could say of Fox, " He is a man to be loved." Fox had said of the French Revolution, " How much it is the greatest event that ever happened in the world, and how much the best ! " Samuel Rogers declared it to be " the greatest event in Europe since the eruption of the Goths."... | |
 | Lewis Sergeant - 1882 - 220 sider
...Opposition leader heard of the capture of the Bastille, he declared with exultation, " How much it is the greatest event that ever happened in the world ! And how much the best ! " Sheridan spoke in the same strain, and so did Grey and most of the prominent Whigs. But a few of... | |
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How much is it the greatest event that ever happened in the world and how much the best," said Fox after the taking of the Bastille. 
