| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly spirit and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 páginas
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . Chivalry, according to him, was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say, " which distinguished... | |
| Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 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...— that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 páginas
...freedom. The unbought grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
| Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 páginas
...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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 páginas
...freedom. The unbought grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
| 1850 - 602 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 and ' heroic enterprise ! Without confounding ranks, it produced a ' noble equality, and handed it down through all the gradations... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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...wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated 1 Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa, and Queen of LouU XVI., guillotined 1703.... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 488 páginas
...Europe is extinguished for ever ! 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, is gone ! and all this because the Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of... | |
| John Cumming - 1851 - 592 páginas
...kept alive even in servitude itself the spirit of an exalted freedom. The uhbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone." Even this, however, was but the beginning of the sanguinary outburst. The king was soon after dragged... | |
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