 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...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 nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Politicians - 1839 - 488 pages
...last drop of his blood.* " Wonderful formation, — the noblest of national 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... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1839 - 480 pages
...last drop of his blood.* " Wonderful formation, — the noblest of national 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty td rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise... | |
 | Hannah More - 1840 - 844 pages
...to raise the spirit of true chivalry as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The imbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse...of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone* !" Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than to true gallantry. Men are not fond... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...more, | shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex,, — | that proud submis'sion, — | that dignified obedience', — | that subordination...itself', | the spirit of an exalted freedom. | The unbought grace of life,, | the cheap defence of nations, | the nurse of manly sentiment, | and heroic... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the...kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life,—the cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment... | |
 | George Cruikshank - English literature - 1842 - 366 pages
...and calculators has succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The un bo ugh t grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the...of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, "is gone !" * Burke. This cunning practico of acknowledging a few words borrowed, with a view to divert suspicion... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...and calculators has succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The unbought grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the...of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, "is gone !" * Burke. This cunning practice of acknowledging a few words borrowed, with a view to divert suspicion... | |
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Never, never more shall we behold that 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. 
