 ... 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
 | Jenny Davidson - 2004 - 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... | |
 | Stephen Regan - 2004 - 628 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... | |
 | George Walker - 2004 - 396 Seiten
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroick enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated society, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Samet - 2004 - 300 Seiten
...Melville refers here to the Reflections' lament for a prerevolutionary "sensibility of principle," or "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... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2005 - 281 Seiten
...in the 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 have... | |
 | Veronica Ortenberg - 2006 - 374 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... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 2007 - 454 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... | |
 | Michael Kramp - 2007 - 218 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... | |
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