 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...  Cassell's illustrated readings - Side 187av Cassell, ltd - 1875Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1811 - 386 sider
...The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MISS ELIZABETH SMITH. THE "Fragments in Prose and Verse," of this extraordinary,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 sider
...dignified obedience, —that subordination of the heart, which kept alive r . even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of...manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone,—that sensibility of principle,—that chastity of honour, which felt a stain .like a wound,—which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 sider
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, Ilie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 sider
...dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | 1848 - 802 sider
...unbought grace of life — the cheap Tacitus. defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...it touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil, by losing all its grossness."* What a commentary on these well - known and long-admired... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 sider
...dignified obedience,— that subordination of the heart, which keeps alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Section 111. PANEGYRIC ON THE BRITISH CONSTI. TUTION. BY a constitutional policy working after the... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 sider
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all iti grossnm.' Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 sider
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself tost half its evil, by losing all ill grossness.' Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of... | |
 | 1821 - 362 sider
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbonght grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nur?e of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which rice itself lost... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sider
...dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
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