 | William Massey - 1860 - 546 sivua
...occasion to pronounce an elaborate eulogy on the French constitution,11 describing it as ' altogether the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...foundation of human integrity in any time or country.' The Whig leader had, in addition to this, taken every opportunity, which the license of debate afforded,... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1860 - 446 sivua
...to the new influence. One month before Wesley's death Fox pronounced the new French constitution " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...foundation of human integrity in any time or country." Under such auspices, the dangerous doctrines, though generally associated with profound religious errors,... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1860 - 802 sivua
...different men might entertain different opinions about it, he at least regarded the new French Constitution as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...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,... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1860 - 834 sivua
...entertain different opinions about it, he at least regarded the new French Constitution as the raost stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had...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 - 654 sivua
...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 sivua
...laid claim to some knowledge of this sort, and some ability this way ; that would stand for ever " as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...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 sivua
...language too strong. In memorable phrases, the great orator pronounced the French Revolution to be the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...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 sivua
...of its place. It is virtually a begging of the question. It is a song of triumph before the battle. "But Mr. Fox does not make the panegyric of the new...fabric was an object of admiration, as well as the demoli- ' tion of the old. Mr. Fox, however, has explained himself ; and it would be too like that... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 558 sivua
...thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." Mr. Fox, who spoke of it as "the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...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 sivua
...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... | |
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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... 
