...Marie Antoinette, he went on to claim that The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone,...

...sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty...of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone,...

...look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe...-shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and see, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...

...voice God save the King. EDMUND BURKE The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was an Anglo-Irish political philosopher and statesman. He wielded his immense...

...their scabbards at this outrage: "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever."36 Chivalry had been "the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise" and had given a character...

...(Penguin Classics: 19861, p. 1 70: 'The age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone,...

...traditional men and manners of England: But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone,...

...extravagance during an insolvent period in France's history. sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators,i has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone,...

...the beginning of a petty bourgeois one: "The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom" (126). In Considerations sur la France (1796), Joseph de Maistre went so far as to interpret the revolution...

...habitual social discipline. What Burke truly lamented in the eclipse of chivalric manners was the loss of "that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom." Burke mourned the loss of the "sensibility of principle" that inspired voluntary "THE MOST IMPORTANT...