 When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Página 93por Edmund Burke - 1803Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Macknight - 1860 - 802 páginas
...different opinions about it, he at least regarded the new French Constitution as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected...on the foundation of human integrity, in any time and in any country. Such declarations Burke construed into a direct defiance. He rose, deeply agitated,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 652 páginas
...Coleridge— " Table Talk," vol. ii. p. 192. 194 BREACH OF THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN BURKE AND FOX. [1791. which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country." There had been animated debates on a proposition of Mr. Pitt for the government of Canada, which contemplated... | |
 | 1862 - 492 páginas
...knowledge of this sort, and some ability this way ; that would stand for ever " as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any age or country."* And when these revolutionists took off the head of their king, they thought they... | |
 | William Massey - 1863 - 704 páginas
...strong. In memorable phrases, the great orator pronounced the French Revolution to be the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any age or country. This language was used at a time when violence and injustice of the grossest kind had... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - 494 páginas
...When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected...human integrity in any time or country," it might at first have led the hearer into an opinion that the construction of the new fabric was an object of... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 558 páginas
...in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." Mr. Fox, who spoke of it as "the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected...foundation of human integrity in any time or country." Note in vol. iii. of " Horse Apocalypticse," p. 1060, first edition. Mr. Elliott also instances Mr.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 636 páginas
...people. In his judgment, he said, it was " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty that had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country." Burke, immediately Fox sat down, rose to reply to him ; but it was by this time three o'clock in the... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1873 - 718 páginas
...influence. One month before Wesley's death Fox pronounced the new French constitution " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected...foundation of human integrity in any time or country." Under such auspices, the dangerous doctrines, though generally associated with profound religious errors,... | |
 | Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 páginas
...Sheridan. Fox had declared that " he considered the new constitution of France as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected...foundation of human integrity in any time or country." On 6th May 1791, a formal renunciation of his friendship with Fox was made in the House of Commons.... | |
 | 1879 - 612 páginas
...he admired the new Constitution 269 of France, and considered it altogether as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected,...foundation of human integrity, in any time or country.' The breach between Burke and Fox occurred in the debate on the Quebec Government Bill, and the Whig... | |
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