... generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations,... American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ... - Seite 1351811 - 300 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 Seiten
...freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment 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 ennobled... | |
| 1873 - 794 Seiten
...freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment 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 ennobled... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitiga'ed ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 Seiten
...not Tweed alone that breeze. CS b. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. — BURKE. It here represents the " sensibility of... | |
| Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1858 - 264 Seiten
...Pudicum : " prae pudoreabstinentem."—Or. 83. Qui pr. honos. sc.'pudor.' As Burke has expressed it," That sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound." Cp. Juv. viii. 83.: Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori. 90. dolo aUO, 'by their own fault.'... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 Seiten
...! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment 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 ennobled... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 Seiten
...glowing eloquence of his valediction to the spirit of chivalry. " It is gone," cries Mr. Burke ; " that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." In the last clause of this beautiful sentence, we... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 Seiten
...The imbought grace of'lifo, t<ie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic d>:Ɖf mhI p 6f ޜ Sʤ d j ͽ@ Ǵu % ʜU % p y... ] ?e nٽ㧣? 2k ˦. x S z ԫ ^= N . z g7 ? `jςv whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 432 Seiten
...The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 Seiten
...freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| |