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" But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified,... "
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and ... - Page 100
by Joseph Weber - 1805
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...which they had been in assured possession, in favour of wild and irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It...
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Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta ... queen of France and Navarre, tr. by R.C. Dallas

Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone—that of sophisters, " oeconomists, and calculators has succeeded; " and the glory of...spirit of an " exalted freedom. The unbought grace of " life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse " of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprize, is " gone...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...dream when she added' titles of veneration to those of enthusiastick, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote...spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse ef manly sentiment and heroick enterprise is gone ! It...
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American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ...

Women - 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 an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 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 freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, cecouomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe...spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, Ilie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...which they had been in assured possession, in favour of wild and irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...spirit 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...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - English orations - 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...spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...sex,-— that proud submission,-^that dignified obedience,— that subordination of the heart, which keeps 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 and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It...
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