 ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that...  The British orator - Page 52by Thomas King Greenbank - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Ciaran Walsh - 2006 - 434 pages
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 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...defend our laws And ever give us cause To sing with heart and voice God save the King. EDMUND BURKE The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was an Anglo-Irish political philosopher and statesman. He wielded his immense... | |
 | Earl Stanhope - 2006 - 516 pages
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 | Fred R. Shapiro - 2006 - 1092 pages
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 | Harvey Claflin Mansfield - 2006 - 310 pages
...imprisonment of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, that no one was man enough to avenge her: "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."3 Burke's exclamation in praise of chivalry amounts to a defense of aristocracy against the... | |
 | Rowan Gill - 2005 - 96 pages
...world government is to be brought into being but something like it, I suggest, will have to come about. The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists...succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. (Edmund Burke, eighteenth century) The trial by market everything must come to. (Robert Frost... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2007 - 444 pages
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 | David Avrom Bell - 2007 - 444 pages
...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ... I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever ... All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished... | |
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