| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !'* Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than true gallantry. Men are not fond of... | |
| Hannah More - 1834 - 436 páginas
...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 hazarding... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an wasted away under an sensihility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,...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 few... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap de3 fense of nations, 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 a wound,—which... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1837 - 716 páginas
...Europe is " extinguished forever !" that " the unboitght grace of life (if any one knows what it is,) the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !" And all this because the Quixotic age of chivalric nonsense is gone, what opinion can we form of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 páginas
...obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 páginas
...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 whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
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