| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 496 páginas
...of Europe is extinguished for ever ! that the vnbought 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 Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 páginas
...heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of ail exalted freedom. The nnbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment find heroic enterprise, is gone. — Burke. [Bern. 2, (2).] The book, and not the author, is admired.... | |
| Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 páginas
...heroic enteris gone. It is gone, || that sensibility || of principle, \ that chastity || of honor, \ / which felt a stain, like a wound ; \ / which inspired courage, whilst it mi tiga ted || ferocity;\ which ennobled whatever it touched; \ and under which || vice itself, \ lost... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 páginas
...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The nu bought grace of life, the cheap defunoe of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone. — Hurke. [Bem. 2, (2).] The book, and not the author, is admired. Perseverance, and not genins, has... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 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, and ennobled... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise — is jjone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of hon our, which felt a stain like... | |
| Hannah More - 1847 - 450 páginas
...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,...of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! "* Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than to true gallantry. Men are not fond... | |
| 1848 - 816 páginas
...unbought grace of life — the cheap Tacitas. '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... | |
| 1848 - 588 páginas
...defence of nations, the muse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ;" that, we have lost " that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity ;." — may we not, — instead of joining in this eloquent lament, which the circumstances Burke was... | |
| John Cumming - 1848 - 558 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...of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone." Even this, however, was but the beginning of the sanguinary outburst. The King was soon after dragged... | |
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