Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace... Century Readings in the English Essay - Page 195edited by - 1926 - 529 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 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 honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 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 honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse ef manly sentiment and heroick enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain ike a wound, which inspired courage whilst k mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...in servitude itself, 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 ! It is gone,—that sensibility of principle,—that chastity of honour, which felt a stain .like a wound,—which... | |
| 1811 - 386 pages
...The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired, courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, Ilie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| William Morgan - 1815 - 212 pages
...the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever— that the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!" Such indeed was the inveterate antipathy of Mr. Burke to the French revolution, that in the paroxysm... | |
| 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, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| 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, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
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