 ... 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
 | Charles Dickens - 1998 - 660 Seiten
...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 ils evil by losing all its grossness." In the last clause of this beautiful sentence we have... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 1998 - 252 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... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 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 (III) - 1999 - 356 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... | |
 | Kristin Waters - 2000 - 208 Seiten
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