...the heart, which kept alive even in servitude itself the spirit of an exalted freedom. The uhbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse...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...

...of Europe is extinguished for ever ! 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, is gone ! and all this because the Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of...

...of Europe is extinguished for ever ! 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, is gone ! and all this because the Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of...

...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...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...

...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...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...

...obedicnce, 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...and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone — that sensihility of prinelple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...

...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The nnbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled...

...argument by quoting Edmund Burke on the sad decline from older standards of moral and aesthetic taste: "It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its...

...extinguished foreverl that The unbought grace of life (if any one knows what it is), the cheap defense 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 his...

...and to honour the values that are arbitrarily or customarily associated with the name of chivalry: 'the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise' (Reflections, VIII, p. 117). On all fronts Burke husbands the uncertainty, darkness and confusion that...