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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 106
1821
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, Ilie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil^by losing all its This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of of manly sentiment and heroick enterprisfe is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 63

1848 - 802 pages
...unbought grace of life — the cheap Tacitus. defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; and under which vice itself lost...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of ho1iour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...
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A journal during a residence in France ... 1792

John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 pages
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself tost half...
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The Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by Robert Anderson, Volume 3

John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 8

1836 - 496 pages
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt disgrace like a wound." Most of the persecutors of the hapless Marie Antoinette were in turn executed...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment...
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