 ... 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
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 Seiten
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of of manly sentiment and heroick enterprisfe is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...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, that chastity of ho1iour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | 1821 - 362 Seiten
...freedom. The unbonght grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nur?e 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 rice itself lost... | |
 | 1836 - 496 Seiten
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt disgrace like a wound." Most of the persecutors of the hapless Marie Antoinette were in turn executed... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 520 Seiten
...The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroick 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise ia gone! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, — which ennobled whatever it touched; and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...defence of nations, the nurse of manly ;-eiiliineiit and heroic enterprise is gone 1 It is gone t hat urn thee; no maid with her tears of love. Dead is...that brought thee forth. Fallen is the daughter oí whilst il mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, aud under \vliicli vice itself lostlialf... | |
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