 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 696 pages
...medicine against the French disease ; which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can forgive even his superstition." — WRIOHv. Monday evening. The east winds are making me amends ; ono... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 pages
...admirable medicine against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can forgive even his superstition. The primitive church, which I have treated with some freedom, was itself... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...admirable medicine against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can forgive even his superstition. The primitive church, which I have treated with some freedom, was itself... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...often confesses, with a laugh. — Northcote. That man is a poet. — Gray. Edmund Burke. 1730-1797. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I...almost excuse his reverence for Church establishments. — Gibbon, " Memoirs." Burke, sir, is such a man that if you met him for the first time in the street... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...his strong opinion and warm feelings in perfect accordance with those of Burke ; of whom he says, " I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I...almost excuse his reverence for church establishments." Even when Burke's violence had spurned all bounds of moderation, we find the historian, in reference... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...derate Gibbon som Bnrke. Han skriver fra Lausanne: BI beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Bnrke's creed on the Revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his polities , I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments".... | |
 | Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 pages
...address ; Gibbon wrote : " Burke's book is a moat BITE admirable medicine against the French disease ; I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost forgive his reverence for church establishments." It cannot be denied that thehorrorsof the Re volution... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...alarm lest England should catch the revolutionary fever. He is delighted with Burke's Reflections. " I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can forgive even his superstition." His wrath waxes hotter at every post. "Poor France ! The state is dissolved... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 950 pages
..." I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the Revolution of France," he wrote. " I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I...almost excuse his reverence for church establishments." Thirteen days after the massacre of the Swiss guard in the attack on the Tuileries in August, 1792,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 796 pages
...triumphant Democrats disturbed the harmony of social circles. Gibbon espoused the cause of the royalists. " I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the Revolution of France," he wrote. "I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry and I can almost excuse... | |
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France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments. 
