 ... 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
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 Seiten
...argument by quoting Edmund Burke on the sad decline from older standards of moral and aesthetic taste: "It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness" (quoted by Price, Casebook, p. 242). This passage... | |
 | Edmund Burke, J. G. A. Pocock - 1987 - 294 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 Seiten
...the thought in a dangerous paradox. He regrets that the loss of chivalry has meant the departure of "that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 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...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 964 Seiten
...freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic kd honor which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Joseph Scotchie - 1997 - 196 Seiten
...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment, 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... | |
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