...should be glad to talk it over with you a little, and it is not quite impossible but I may go too. How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best !' If you go without my seeing you, pray say something civil for me to the Duke of Orleans, whose conduct...

...should be glad to talk it over with you a little, and it is not quite impossible but I may go too. How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! * If you go without my seeing you, pray say something civil for me to the Duke of Orleans, whose...

...dramatic that it shook even the immobility of Whiggism. Charles Fox wrote, in a transport of enthusiasm, ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' But it was only the first act in the great drama. Before long, men who had been accustomed from...

...attached to the opinion he had from the first expressed to Fitzpatrick : " How much," exclaimed he, " the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best!"* But Burke became, so early as the autumn of 1789, convinced that, from the extreme principles which...

...raptures at the great event of the 14th of July. He writes to Fitzpatrick, on the 30th of that month, " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world, and how much the best." || Even Burke expresses himself soberly, within three weeks after that " greatest event." He writes...

...well-known abuses of its government with destruction. When Mr. Fox said, in writing at the time to Mr. Fitzpatrick, 'How much the greatest event it is that...ever happened in the world, and how much the best ! ' (Mem. of Fox, vol. ii. p. 361) he probably went beyond the popular sentiment of his countrymen,...

...Fitzpatrick, who was about to go to Paris. Referring apparently to the recent capture, Fox writes, ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' He sends his warm compliments to the Duke of Orleans, who was in violent opposition to the Court,...

...of its capture arrived, Pitt with his official responsibility was of course silent. Fox wrote — ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world, and how much the best!' Burke was in doubt and reserved his judgment. 'Our thoughts of everything at home,' he wrote to Lord...

...and there it should strike a few heads ? ' ' What an event,' exclaimed Fox, ' how much the greatest it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' 2 Can we be surprised that this conception of the Revolution as a general uprising of humanity,...

...convalescent. After hearing of the taking of the Bastille, Fox wrote to Fitzpatrick on 30 July 1789 : ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' and bade him tell the Duke of Orleans that, if the revolution had the consequences he expected,...