 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 98by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1835 - 522 pages
...Europe is extinguished forever !" 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 it gone !" And all this because the Quixotic age of chivalric nonsense is gone, what opinion can we... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...rank and sex,—that proud submission,—that dignified obedience,—that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap de3 fense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone,—that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 572 pages
...extinguished for ever." The immortal spirit of Edmund Burke may find consolation in the circumstance that " the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,...nurse of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprise" is still among us; and, in truth, acceptable as is the testimony which is given to the fact in the few... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 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 of an exalted freedom ; that untaught grace of life, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1837 - 716 pages
...Europe is " extinguished forever !" that " the unboitght 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 Quixotic age of chivalric nonsense is gone, what opinion can we form of... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 428 pages
...to rank and sex, the proud submission, the dignified obedience, and that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 434 pages
...to rank and sex, the proud submission, the dignified obedience, and that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 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 of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — -which... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 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...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manlv sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone; that sensibilit, of prmciple, that chastity... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 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 of an exalted freedom.' But we hope this is not quite true, even yet, in Europe ! Mr. Prescott is mistaken in supposing that... | |
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