 | William Morgan - 1815 - 212 pages
...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, that in the paroxysm... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pages
...unbought grace of life — the cheap Tacitus. defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...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...a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalied freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence 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 a stain like a wound,—which... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic 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 it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 pages
...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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself tost half... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pages
...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...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which rice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grotsness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment... | |
 | sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1822 - 90 pages
..." Europe extinguished for ever/' to swell the " Diapason" with " the unbought grace of life, " the CHEAP defence of Nations, the nurse of " manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !" — I quote from memory, but I feel sure that I quote correctly. They are words which must be written... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt disgrace like a wound." Most of the persecutors of the hapless Marie Antoinette were in turn executed... | |
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence 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 a stain like a wound... 
