...Jeffrey, reviewing Scott's Marmion, 18082 'The age of chivalry is gone - that of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' The exclamation that launches this rhetorical climax is the best remembered of Edmund Burke's Reflections...

...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,...

...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,...

...be independent of that culture. "But the Age of chivalry has gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1 790 Measured Risk Unfortunately the response...

...Reflections on the Revolution in France: "[T]he age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever" (quoted in Byres, "The Creation of 'The Tribe of Pundits Called Economists,'" in his The Indian Economy,...

...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 is extinguished for ever.20 There were over seventy responses to Burke's Reflections: most were hostile, many pilloried...