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Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta ... queen of France and Navarre, tr. by R.C. Dallas - Page 98
by Joseph Weber - 1805
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...possession, in, favour of wild and irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded...enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, •economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...enterprize is gone ! It Is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst...
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Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of ..., Volume 1

Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...*' alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an " exalted freedom. The unbought grace of •e life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse " of...is " gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of princi" ple, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain " like a wound, which inspired courage whilst " it...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...proud submission,—that dignified obedience, —that subordination of the heart, which kept alive r . even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone,—that sensibility of principle,—that chastity of honour, which...
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American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ...

1811 - 386 pages
...mnk and sex; that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of thelieart, winch kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, (economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...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...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of of manly sentiment and heroick enterprisfe is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Richard Price

William Morgan - 1815 - 212 pages
...lamented that " the age of chivalry is gone — that the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever— that the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!" Such indeed was the inveterate antipathy of Mr. Burke to the French revolution,...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Richard Price

William Morgan - 1815 - 214 pages
...lamented that " the age of chivalry is gone — that the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever — that the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse ofmanty sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!" Such indeed was the inveterate antipathy of Mr....
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, ceconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of ho1iour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst...
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