 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 pagina’s
...style are still remembered ; 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.'' So, too, the fine allusion to Marie Antoinette, " And surely, never lighted on this orb, which she... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 pagina’s
...style are still remembered ; 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.'' So, too, the fine allusion to Marie Antoinette, " And surely, never lighted on this orb, which she... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 878 pagina’s
...with a bitter taunt at tho Minister. "The age of chivalry," Burke cried, "is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." But neither taunts nor invective moved Pitt from his course. At the moment when the "Reflections"... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 400 pagina’s
...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 forever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pagina’s
...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 forever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch siadtholder or an American pr forever. BURKE: • Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790. MARTYRS. The first martyr for Christianity... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1881 - 924 pagina’s
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gene! The age of chivalry has passed away: that of sophists, economists, and calculators has...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever !" Irritated by the effect produced on the public mind by such stirring appeals, Fox charged his former... | |
 | James Platt - 1881 - 226 pagina’s
...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. The age of chivalry is gone : that of sophists, economists, and calculators has succeeded." In its place we have the new gospel that " Force is the measure of truth, success the test of right,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pagina’s
...of some of 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... | |
 | Lewis Sergeant - 1882 - 220 pagina’s
...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 for ever. The unbought ' grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments and heroic... | |
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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 forever. 
