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Études littéraires ou cours complet de littérature anglaise - Page 46
by Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 8

1836 - 496 pages
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt disgrace like a wound." Most of the persecutors of the hapless Marie Antoinette were in turn executed...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...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,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness ! FEAR OF GOD. It were endless to enumerate all the passages, both in the...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...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,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. PART OF THE BURIAL SERVICE. (From the Book of Common Prayer.) I AM the resurrection...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise ia gone! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. PART OF THE BURIAL SERVICE. (From the Book of Common Prayer.) I AM the resurrection...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...defence of nations, the nurse of manly ;-eiiliineiit and heroic enterprise is gone 1 It is gone t hat urn thee; no maid with her tears of love. Dead is...brought thee forth. Fallen is the daughter oí Morglan il mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, aud under \vliicli vice itself lostlialf...
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The philosophy of the human voice: embracing its physiological history [&c.].

James Rush - 1833 - 448 pages
...several durations of those pauses. It is gone | that sensibility of principle | that chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired...under which | vice itself | lost | half its evil | by losing all its grossness. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring to illustrate, may perhaps...
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The Philosophy of the Human Voice: Embracing Its Physiological History ...

James Rush - 1833 - 432 pages
...several durations of those pauses. It IB gone | that sensibility of principle | that chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired...whatever it touched | and under which | vice itself | lout | half its-evil | by losing all its grossness. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...nnbought grace of lifo, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise rn losing all its grossness. This mi t oil system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensihility ect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn...amid the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient...
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