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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63

1848 - 816 pages
...sixty years have elapsed since Mr Burke observed — "The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission, that dignified...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 24

1848 - 524 pages
...Burke in illustrating the spirit of the day : — " The age of chivalry is gone : that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, and see that proud submission, that dignified obedience,...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 22

1848 - 614 pages
...physical welfare of the people of all the countries has been promoted precisely in the degree in which " that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud...— that dignified obedience — that subordination oflhe heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom," has been...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 17

1848 - 636 pages
...sixty years have elapsed since Mr. Burke observed — " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never more shall we behold that generOU.T loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submissioi,...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists,...that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission—that dignified obedience—that subordination'of the heart, which keeps alive, even in...
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History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution ..., Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more i Burke's shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — H9rkRethat proud submission,...
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Études littéraires ou cours complet de littérature anglaise

Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...âge of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, ecomomists, and calculators lias succeeded ; and thé glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that générons loyalty to rank and sex, lhat proud submission, that digniiîed obédience, that subordination...
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Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island: Or, Sketches of the Efforts of the Government ...

Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone — that of sophisters, economists...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission,...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...sixty years have elapsed since Mr Burke observed — " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission, that dignified...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...sixty years have elapsed since Mr Burke observed — " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex- — that proud submission, that dignified...
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