 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 582 pages
...Revolution was only murmuring like distant thunder : — ' All the symptoms,' he observed, ' which I have ever met with in history, previous to great...revolutions in government, now exist and daily increase in France.' But 'revolution' is not the word which falls from French lips in our time. There is something... | |
 | Mrs. Coulson Kernahan - 1890 - 244 pages
...he counted up the signs and the causes of the coming tempest. "All the symptoms," he wrote, "which I ever met with in history previous to great changes...revolutions in government now exist, and daily increase in France." He had in these matters the far-seeing eye which could pierce into the future. That he did... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1890 - 450 pages
...counted up the signs and the causes of the coming tempest. " All the symptoms," he wrote, " which I ever met with in History previous to great changes...revolutions in government now exist and daily increase in France." " II avait," as a gifted critic has said, " le coup d'ceil lointain, et les vues de l'avenir2."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 346 pages
...Adieu. ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES TO VOL. II. Page 4, /. 19. "once more be free." — "All the symptoms, which I have ever met with in history, previous to great...revolutions in government, now exist, and daily increase, in France. I am glad of it ; the rest of Europe will be the quieter, and have time to recover." (Chesterfield's... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 504 pages
...government, and begin to bo upregiudicati ; the officers do so too ; in short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great...revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France. I am glad of it ; the rest of Europe will bo the quieter, and have time to recover. England,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 528 pages
...government, and begin to be spregiudicati ; the officers do so too ; in short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great...revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France. I am glad of it; the rest of Europe will be the quieter, and have time to recover. England,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1893 - 530 pages
...Revolution), Lord Chesterfield wrote his memorable letter : — ' In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in ' History previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Govern' ment now exist and daily increase in France.' (Letters, ii. 347 ; compare ii. 237.) Still more... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1893 - 376 pages
...England had colonised.1 Lord Chesterfield, as early as 1753, declared that "all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in governments, now exist and daily increase in France." 2 " We are approaching the state of crisis, and... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1894 - 310 pages
...from Paris, summing up his observations on the state of France: " In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great...revolutions in government, now exist and daily increase in France." This, being written so early and by a foreigner, Is perhaps the most noteworthy of the prophecies... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1894 - 306 pages
...from Paris, summing up his observations on the state of France : " In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in government, now exist end daily increase in France." This, being written so early and by a foreigner, is perhaps the most... | |
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... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France. 
