| Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 páginas
...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... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 páginas
...exalted freedom ; that untaught grace of life, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its crossness." It is the reality finely exemplified in the actions of Edward the Black Prince, showing... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...servitude itself, the spirit of an 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 sensibility of principle,—that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound,—which... | |
| 1853 - 572 páginas
...spirit of Edmund Burke may find consolation in the circumstance that " the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the 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... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1837 - 716 páginas
...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 páginas
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 páginas
...institutions,—that cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, —that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 páginas
...last drop of his blood.* " Wonderful formation, — the noblest of national institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1839 - 488 páginas
...last drop of his blood.* " Wonderful formation, — the noblest of national institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 300 páginas
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
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