...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,...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.9 According to Burke, this system of values depends on acknowledging social hierarchy as...

...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled...

...argument by quoting Edmund Burke on the sad decline from older standards of moral and aesthetic taste: "It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its...

...extinguished foreverl that The unbought grace of life (if any one knows what it is), the cheap defense 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 his...

...are arbitrarily or customarily associated with the name of chivalry: 'the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise' (Reflections, VIII, p. 117). On all fronts Burke husbands the uncertainty, darkness and confusion that...

...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,...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.1" The revival of romance was inseparable from this ideology. The overt jingoism against...

...excite love, her rank awe, and their combination, chivalrous devotion - 'The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise ... under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness' (Reflections, p. 170)....

...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled...

...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment, is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.10 An argument from circumstance? Weaver still thought so. Kirk, on the other hand, was the...

...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...