 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...its passages. As, for instance : — " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." And the allusion to Queen Marie Antoinette : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1883 - 156 pages
...the age of chivalry is (7) gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc(8) ceeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever....heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, (9) the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the... | |
 | Gustave H. Doret - 1883 - 172 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 Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more (6) shall we behold (7) that generous loyalty (8) to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified... | |
 | Linda Colley - Social Science - 2005 - 452 pages
...that threatened her with insult.—But the age of chivalry is gone.-That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. . . On this scheme of things, a king is but a man; a queen is but a woman; a woman is but an animal;... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...soon be no more - that of Philosophers and 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 Splendors; -... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - Business & Economics - 1996 - 308 pages
...central issue, namely, Edmund Burke, with his elegy to "the age of chivalry," which is "gone. . . . That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded;...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever" (Burke, Reflections 170). This is an outcome that in the French case Burke blames directly on what... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...Europe, 1810 An elder statesman could bewail: The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' 'Here and now', remarked the leading writer of the age having watched the Battle of Valmy, 'a new era... | |
 | Joseph Scotchie - Political Science - 1997 - 196 pages
...sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty...sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, the subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of exalted freedom.... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 1998 - 316 pages
...1790 the conservative orator Edmund Burke had famously declared, "the age of chivalry is gone. —That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." 1 He was writing of the 1789 Revolution in France, and the significance of its declarations and principles... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 270 pages
...carcases" (1641. These horrors lead Burke to the famous peroration: "the age of chivalry is gone, — That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded;...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever" ( 1 701. However, just what part have the "sophisters. oeconomists, and calculators" — that is. as... | |
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I thought ten thousand swords must have 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, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... 
