 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...unique and novel event. In the Reflections, he wrote, "it appears to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 236 pages
...if I were in a great crisis," wrote Burke as he asked the reader to forgive his emotional rhetoric, "not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe" (21—22). To consider the writer's coding of a crisis that was at once psychic and political, I now... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...seasoned? Had the constitution of France * Page 11. 'It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 1995 - 944 pages
...progress. He only expresses his wonder. "It looks," says he, "to me, as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...not confine myself to them. Is it possible I should? It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
 | David Williams - History - 1999 - 534 pages
...not confine myself to them. Is it possible I should? It appears to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...progress. He only expresses his wonder. "It looks," says he, "to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
 | David Carvounas - History - 2002 - 142 pages
...Revolution is an astonishing and unprecedented event: "lt looks to me as if l were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps even more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing... | |
 | Davide Panagia - Philosophy - 2006 - 188 pages
...writings to describe Europe's political climate after 1789: It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hereto happened... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...to them. Is it possible I should ? It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the aflairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened... | |
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It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world. 
