 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...  Second period: The middle age - Page 124by Joseph Henry Allen - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...kept alive, oven in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The nnbought grace of lifo, ss ; and that all those which he was is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, , among the most flourishing in Asia. But since the...of the British power, it has wasted away under an is gone ! It is gone, that sensihility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 pages
...Europe is extinguished forever !" that " the unbought grace of life (if any one knows what it is,) the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise it gone !" And all this because the Quixotic age of chivalric nonsense is gone, what opinion can we... | |
 | 1853 - 572 pages
...extinguished for ever." The immortal spirit of Edmund Burke may find consolation in the circumstance that " the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...the nurse of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprise" is still among us; and, in truth, acceptable as is the testimony which is given to the fact in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 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 honor, which felt a stain like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 pages
...to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the^heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex ; that proud submission ; that dignified obedience ; that subordination of the heart which kept alive even...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manlv sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone; that sensibilit, of prmciple, that chastity... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 488 pages
...last drop of his blood.* " Wonderful formation, — the noblest of national institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment...— that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 pages
...last drop of his blood.* " Wonderful formation, — the noblest of national institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment...— that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 pages
...Wonderful formation,—the noblest of national institutions,—that cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, —that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling... | |
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