 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 pages
...Europe is extinguished for ever ! " that The unbought grace of life, (if any one knows what " it is) the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly senti"ment and heroic enterprize is gone /" and all this because the Quixote-age of chivalry nonsense is gone, what opinion... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 598 pages
...to raise the spirit of true chivalrv, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. ' Theunhought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone '.'* Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than true gallantry. Men are not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...that generous loyalty to rank and sex, — that proud submission, — that dignified obedience, — that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise ia gone! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of honour, which felt a stain... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 528 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! " * * We cannot pass over the brilliant passage of Mr. Burke, of which this is a part, without... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 530 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! " * * We cannot pass over the brilliant passage of Mr. Burke, of which this is a part, without... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 620 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. ' The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! * Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than tme gallantry. Men are not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an ex«Iti'd t him to hang «11 his dogs. Then; was also difficulty of getting victuals to carry t ;-eiiliineiit and heroic enterprise is gone 1 It is gone t hat sensibility of principle, that chastity... | |
 | Hannah More - 1832 - 564 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the falsa. 1 The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !'* Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than true gallantry. Men are not... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 436 pages
...spirit of true chivalry as much as Cervantes Lad done to lay the false. " The unbought grace of lit'.-, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone !" * * We cannot pass over the brilliant passage of Mr. Burke, of which this is a part, without... | |
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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. The unbought grace... 
