 ... 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, the...  Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous - Sivu 467tekijä(t) Archibald Alison - 1850 - 2060 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 sivua
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensihility ect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, hushands from wives, envel whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 434 sivua
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 428 sivua
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 488 sivua
...institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 sivua
...institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 sivua
...institutions,—that cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, —that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 sivua
...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,—...inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which enobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 sivua
...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,...felt a stain like a " wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated " ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 sivua
...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,...felt a stain like a " wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated " ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 sivua
...life,, | the cheap defence of nations, | the nurse of manly sentiment, | and heroic en'terprise, | is gone, ! | It is gone, — | that sensibility of...— | that chastity of hon'our, | which felt a stain liAe a wound,, — | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated fero'city, — | which enno'bled... | |
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