 | Sidney Webb, Sydney Haldane Olivier Baron Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas - 1889 - 262 頁
...French Revolution. The fall of the Bastille was hailed by all who had been touched by the new ideas. " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ; and how much the best ! " wrote Charles James Fox.1 It shewed, or seemed to shew, to men that a genuine social reconstruction... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - 1890 - 248 頁
...cannot help being pleased with oneself for having done right." CHAPTER VIII. THE WAR WITH FKANCE. " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world and how much the best." Such was the comment of Fox on the arrival of the news of the fall of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789.... | |
 | 1891 - 532 頁
...Bastile fell, an event which met with Fox's favour, as he wrote to Fitzpatrick, 30th July, 1789 : " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world, and how much the best ! '" TRIBDTB TO, 1789. 2. Obv. — Bust of Fox, similar to the preceding, but with coat buttoned. Leg.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 384 頁
...the Revolution unstinted praise. " How much," he wrote, on hearing of the capture of the Bastille, " the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world; and how much the best!" Burke, on the other hand, regarded with disfavour, soon passing into hatred, the destruction of old... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1892 - 382 頁
...the Revolution unstinted praise. " How much," he wrote, on hearing of the capture of the Bastille, " the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world; and how^much the best!" liurka. on the other hand, regarded with disfavour, soon passing intoTiatred, the... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1895 - 1134 頁
...the Revolution unstinted praise. " How much," he wrote, on hearing of the capture of the Bastille, " the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ; and how much the best ! " Burke, on the other hand, regarded with disfavour, soon passing into hatred, the destruction of... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1897 - 306 頁
...Howard ? Fox only gave expression to the sentiment of many of his contemporaries when he exclaimed, " How much the" greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! " Not that as a fact the fall of the Bastille quite enfranchised the whole of humanity ; it had held... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 410 頁
...if so, his foresight was soon realized by events. On the capture of the Bastille, Fox exclaimed : " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best I" At the same time Burke was writing to an intimate friend : " The old Parisian ferocity has broken... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 398 頁
...if so, his foresight was soon realized by events. On the capture of the Bastille, Fox exclaimed : " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best !" At the same time Burke was writing to an intimate friend : " The old Parisian ferocity has broken... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1902 - 1118 頁
...the Revolution unstinted praise. " How much," he wrote, on hearing of the capture of the Bastille, " the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ; and how much the best ; " Burke, on the other hand, regarded with disfavour, soon passing into hatred, the destruction of... | |
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