| George Croly - 1840 - 612 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... | |
| Hannah More - 1840 - 844 páginas
...of true chivalry as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The imbought 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 to true gallantry. Men are not fond... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 páginas
...alive, even in servitude " itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The un" bought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, " the nurse of manly sentiment...ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 páginas
...alive, even in servitude " itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The un" bought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, " the nurse of manly sentiment...ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 páginas
...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,...— | that chastity of hon'our, | which felt a stain liAe a wound,, — | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated fero'city, — | which enno'bled... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 páginas
...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,—...felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which enobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost half... | |
| George Cruikshank - 1841 - 390 páginas
...succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The untaught grace of life, the " cheap defence of nations *," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, "is gone !" * Burke. This cunning practice of acknowledging a few words borrowed, with a view to divert suspicion... | |
| Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 páginas
...has succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The unbought grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, "is gone !" * Burke. This cunning practice of acknowledging a few words borrowed, with a view to divert suspicion... | |
| Hannah More - 1843 - 456 páginas
...spirit of true chivalry as muchas Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The unbought 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 to true gallantry. Men are not fond... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the oli gont ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like... | |
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