 ... 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.  The Port Folio - Page 5501814Full view - About this book
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 228 pages
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1848 - 394 pages
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | 1848 - 524 pages
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour...felt a stain like a wound, which, inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity. which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pages
...of manlv sentiments — is gone. I', s gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, ,wl.ich ennobled whatever it touched, and under vhich vice itself lost half of its evil, by losing... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...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. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise,... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...and sex — that proud submission — that dignified obedience — that subordination oflhe heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom," has been rooted out. These well-known and long admired words of Burke are the dainty phrase in which... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse Ll_ of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...cheap defence of nations, thé nurse of manly sentiment and heroic entreprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which 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 its evil by losing all its grossness.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil, by losing all its... | |
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