...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.131 In his letter to Burke, Francis writes of this passage: In my opinion all that you say of...

...Antoinette, he claims that "in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers," he would have expected "ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult" (127). He admires a chivalric code of male conduct, but he is also moved by this memory and asserts...

...law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts and their manufactures. [. . .] The age of chivalry is gone, that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.1 Suspicion fuelled by separate trade interests, conflicting political ambition and war meant...

...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.20 There were over seventy responses to Burke's Reflections: most were hostile, many pilloried...

...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers ! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,...

...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers ! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,...

...eighteenth-century conservative English politician — lamented in his Reflections on the Revolution in France: "[T]he age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever" (quoted in Byres, "The Creation of 'The Tribe of Pundits Called Economists,'" in his The Indian Economy,...

...whether the financial risk policy should be independent of that culture. "But the Age of chivalry has gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1 790 Measured Risk Unfortunately the response...

...justification for slavery.41 When Edmund Burke stated in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) that 'the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded',42 he expressed the growing fear that rationalist science might breed the anarchy witnessed...