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" 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 Works of Edmund Burke - Page 98
by Edmund Burke - 1839
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A letter to ... Peter Elsmley ... in answer to the appeal made to professor ...

sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1822 - 90 pages
...of the heart," and the " pride of " Europe extinguished for ever/' to swell the " Diapason" with " the unbought grace of life, " the CHEAP defence of...of " manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !" — I quote from memory, but I feel sure that I quote correctly. They are words which must be written...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 21

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...heart," and the " pride of Europe extinguished for ever," to swell the " Diapason" with " the unbougJit grace of life, the CHEAP defence of Nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !" — I quote from memory, but I feel sure that 1 quote correctly. They are words which must be written...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 8

English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission that dignified obedience, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit...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...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...
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A Sketch of the History of Hawick: Including Some Account of the Manners and ...

Robert Wilson - Hawick (Scotland) - 1825 - 376 pages
...were driven into corners; " where "-the grand Covmthian capital of polished society was demolished ; the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise were gone;"—all gone. The instrument used by the Hibernian Orator on that occasion must have been...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit...defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroick enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which...
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The Political Works of Thomas Paine: Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the ...

Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 470 pages
...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 senti"ment and heroic enterprize is gone /" and all this because the Quixote-age of chivalry nonsense is gone, what opinion...
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The political works of Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 482 pages
...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 senti"ment and heroic enterprizeis gone .'" and all this because the Quixote-age ofchivalry nonsense is gone, whatopinion...
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The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 2

Hannah More - English literature - 1827 - 598 pages
...to raise the spirit of true chivalrv, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. ' Theunhought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the 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...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...sex, — that proud submission, — that dignified obedience, — that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit...that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, —...
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