 | Europe - 1847 - 202 Seiten
...CHAPTER III. COMMERCE. " BUT the age of chivalry is gone," exclaimed Mr. Burke ; " that of sophists, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." We have no sympathy in the romantic feeling of that great man, when he uttered this exclamation. Commerce... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 Seiten
...gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers ! Methought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened...the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience,... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 228 Seiten
...state of society arising from which Mr. Burke alludes in the following well-known celebrated passage. " But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which... | |
 | 1848 - 816 Seiten
...sixty years have elapsed since Mr Burke observed — "The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission, that dignified... | |
 | 1848 - 524 Seiten
...Burke in illustrating the spirit of the day : — " The age of chivalry is gone : that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, and see that proud submission, that dignified obedience,... | |
 | 1848 - 636 Seiten
...sixty years have elapsed since Mr. Burke observed — " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never more shall we behold that generOU.T loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submissioi,... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...disasters fall 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...never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission—that dignified obedience—that subordination'of the heart,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men — in a nation of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 Seiten
...âge of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, ecomomists, and calculators lias succeeded ; and thé glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that générons loyalty to rank and sex, lhat proud submission, that digniiîed obédience, that subordination... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1849 - 367 Seiten
...proofs of courage. These challengers were the young cavaliers of whom Burke thought that 10,000 of their swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened their Queen with insult. Yet these were the very men who first fled from danger, deserted... | |
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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... 
