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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. "
Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ... - Page 77
by Edmund Burke - 1814 - 246 pages
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Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island: Or, Sketches of the Efforts of the Government ...

Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone...
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Saint James's Magazine, and Heraldic and Historical Register, Volume 2

Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 pages
...its revolutionary madness, Chivalry has been eloquently described as that ST. JAMES'S MAG. NO. i. u generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . Chivalry, according to him, was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 466 pages
...generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified odedience, that sub ordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ! " But though the sentiment of loyalty has greatly degenerated, ,t ,s not wholly extinct ; it is now...
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Essays on His Own Times: Forming a Second Series of The Friend, Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1850 - 392 pages
...be no more — that of philosophers and of Christians will succeed, and the torch of superstition he extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, which is prodigal of its own virtue and its own happiness to invest a few with unholy splendours; —...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...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 on his own times, forming a 2nd series of The Friend, ed. by his ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1850 - 464 pages
...be no more — that of philosophers and of Christians will succeed, and the torch of superstition be extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, which is prodigal of its own virtue and its own happiness to invest a few with unholy splendours; —...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...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 Christian Remembrancer, Volume 19

1850 - 556 pages
...gave to each a definite rank, which he could reverence in others and respect in himself. Hence was 'that generous loyalty to rank and sex, ' that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordi' nation of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, ' the spirit of an exalted...
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Readings in science and literature

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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 an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone : It is gone,...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, s from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols...snow-tracks mark the way, And drags the struggling servitud« itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The uubought grace of life, the cheap defence...
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