 | Newton Booth - 1894 - 578 sivua
...to restrict the power of the King. He had spoken, outside of Parliament, of the French Constitution as " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...foundation of human integrity in any time or country." Burke desired to reply to the sentiment in parliamentary debate, and on May 15, 1791, while discussing... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 520 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... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 616 sivua
...introduced the subject, declaring that he ' admired the new Constitution of France, considered altogether, as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...foundation of human integrity in any time or country.' 1 Burke at once, with much visible emotion, rose to reply, but it was the end of a long debate, and... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 608 sivua
...introduced the subject, declaring that he ' admired the new Constitution of France, considered altogether, as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country.'1 Burke at once, with much visible emotion, rose to reply, but it was the end of a long debate,... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1905 - 536 sivua
...Fox, for instance, describing what was considered the first French constitution after the Revolution, as "the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty,...foundation of human integrity, in any time, or country." Abbe1 Sieyes, who had to try his 'hand at so many French constitutions, stated to M. Dumont that Polity... | |
 | 1881 - 818 sivua
...had declared that "he for one admired the new constitution of France, and considered it altogether as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundations of human integrity in any time or country." It was evident that a serious breach was approaching.... | |
 | Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst - 1908 - 262 sivua
...by introducing into his attack an irrelevant appreciation of the revolutionary movement in France, ' the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...foundation of human integrity in any time or country.' 2 The Government's majority on a division was 92. Again on 9th May 1791 the Whig peers assailed the... | |
 | Jean Jaurès - 1923 - 922 sivua
...liberté qui ait été élevé sur le fondement de l'intégrité humaine en aucun temps et en aucun pays (As the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty,...foundation of human integrity in any time or country). » C'était un magnifique témoignage, mais ce n'était, en quelque sorte, qu'un incident de parole.... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1928 - 448 sivua
...eulogized the new constitution of France as "the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which has been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country." Unhappily, as Burke rose "in much visible emotion" to reply, cries of "Question!" silenced him, and... | |
 | 1879 - 610 sivua
...against Russia, declaring that ' he admired the new Constitution of France, and considered it altogether as the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty...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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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... 
