...the news of the taking of the Bastile reached Mr. Fox in July, 1789, he wrote to Fitzpatrick — " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best !" Others thought nearly the same, whose sympathy with the French Revolution, so far from growing with...

...dramatic that it shook even the immobility of Whiggism. Charles Fox wrote, in a transport of enthusiasm, ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' But it was only the first act in the great drama. Before long, men who had been accustomed from...

...attached to the opinion he had from the first expressed to Fitzpatrick : " How much," exclaimed he, " the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best!"* But Burke became, so early as the autumn of 1789, convinced that, from the extreme principles which...

...raptures at the great event of the 14th of July. He writes to Fitzpatrick, on the 30th of that month, " How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world, and how much the best." || Even Burke expresses himself soberly, within three weeks after that " greatest event." He writes...

...Fitzpatrick, who was about to go to Paris. Referring apparently to the recent capture, Fox writes, ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' He sends his warm compliments to the Duke of Orleans, who was in violent opposition to the Court,...

...of its capture arrived, Pitt with his official responsibility was of course silent. Fox wrote — ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world, and how much the best!' Burke was in doubt and reserved his judgment. 'Our thoughts of everything at home,' he wrote to Lord...

...and there it should strike a few heads ? ' ' What an event,' exclaimed Fox, ' how much the greatest it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' 2 Can we be surprised that this conception of the Revolution as a general uprising of humanity,...

...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...

...convalescent. After hearing of the taking of the Bastille, Fox wrote to Fitzpatrick on 30 July 1789 : ' How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best ! ' and bade him tell the Duke of Orleans that, if the revolution had the consequences he expected,...

...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....