 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 368 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 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. — GIBBON, EDWARD, 1791, To Lord Sheffield ; Private Letters, ed. Prothero,... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 pages
...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...almost excuse his reverence for Church establishments." 2 Thirteen days after the massacre of the Swiss guard in the attack on the Tuileries in August, 1792,... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 482 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... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 490 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...many families at Lausanne " were alarmed and affected by the terrors of an impending " bankruptcy ; but the revolution, or rather the dissolution of the...kingdom has been heard and felt in the adjacent lands. " 1 beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on " the revolution of France.* I admire... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 136 pages
...ALL BIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED BT JB LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, USA I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry. — Gibbon. I think him the greatest man upon the earth. — Dr. Parr. In amplitude of comprehension... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 pages
...der Zeit Chesterfields und Johnsons war, lobte Burkes Angriff auf die Revolution fast ohne Vorbehalt: "I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr Burke's creed on the 1) Dazu: Chris Reid, Language and Practice in Burke's Political Writing; Literature and History, Vol.... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 pages
...Reflections, the latter writing of it: "Burke's book is an 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."8'' Of course the king said in public that it was... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 pages
...der Zeit Chesterfields und Johnsons war, lobte Burkes Angriff auf die Revolution fast ohne Vorbehalt: "I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr Burke's creed on the 1) Dazu: Chris Reid, Language and Practice in Burke's Political Writing; Literature and History, Vol.... | |
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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. 
