 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pagina’s
...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, (economists,...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... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pagina’s
...sixty years 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 prond submission, that dignified... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pagina’s
...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 the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,-never more, shall we behold that generous lovalitv to rank and sex.— that proud submission,—that... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pagina’s
...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,...calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is:extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyality to rank and sex,-—... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, ceconomists, 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... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pagina’s
...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,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyally to rank and sex, that prond submission, that... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pagina’s
...contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall 1 * * * But the age of chivalry is gone 1 That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever !' — Reflections on the French Revolution. as the illustration given by Paine, when he said Mr. Burke,... | |
 | 1821 - 734 pagina’s
...times, speaks of its fall in these words — " The age of Chivalry is gone, — that of sopbisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,... | |
 | 1821 - 730 pagina’s
...of its fall in these words—" The age of Chivalry is gone,— that of sophisters, oeconomists, anil calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 pagina’s
...character.' Nearly a century ago, Burke declared ' the age of chivalry is gone ; the age of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' Similarly Carlyle calls the eighteenth century ' An insincere world, a godless untruth of a world.... | |
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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. 
