 | 1814 - 652 pages
...chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which kept alive even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom." France then' flourished under" all the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal,... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...in every other respect. A writer of great ingenuity and eminence regrets, that " we shall never more behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;" and adds, " that with these, are also fled that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 322 pages
...in every other respect. A writer of great ingenuity and eminence regrets, that " we shall never more behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;" and adds, " that with these, are also fled that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, •economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It Is gone,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone,... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone—that of sophisters, " oeconomists, and calculators has succeeded; " and the glory of...an " exalted freedom. The unbought grace of " life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse " of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprize, is " gone ! It... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone — that of sophisters-, " (Economists, and calculators has succeeded ; " and the glory of...spirit of an " exalted freedom. The unbought grace of •e life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse " of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprize, is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse ef manly sentiment and heroick enterprise is gone ! It is gone,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1807 - 492 pages
...without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. But when they are united, it it then that we pay " that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which keeps alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom." EDUCATION AND STUDY. As the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...that threatened her with insult—But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, economists, and* calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of...that generous loyalty to rank and sex, —that proud submission,—that dignified obedience, —that subordination of the heart, which kept alive r . even... | |
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Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. 
