 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...of prmciple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wouud, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Yet inclined as we are to indulge in commendations of the spirit of chivalry, we cannot venture quite... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...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 - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...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...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...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...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | Hannah More - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...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... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...heart, which kept alive, even in servitude " itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The un" bought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, " the...ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...heart, which kept alive, even in servitude " itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The un" bought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, " the...ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
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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. The unbought grace... 
