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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. "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 181
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...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,...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,...
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Comstock's Elocution, Enlarged: A System of Vocal Gymnastics Designed for ...

Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...swords must have |caped from their scabbards to avenge even a look' \ that threatened her with insull. | But the age of chivalry is gone,. | That of sophisters,...calculators, | has succeeded; | and the glory of Europe , j is extinguished for ev^r. | Never, never more, | shall we behold tWfr generous loyalty to rank...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her wilh insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and caleulators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall...
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The Standard Fourth Reader: With Spelling and Defining Lessons, Exercises in ...

Epes Sargent - Readers - 1870 - 340 pages
...An-twiH-nef. leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. 3. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters,...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,...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature

William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...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,...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,...
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The illustrated public school speaker and reader based on grammatical ...

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...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,...calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is exlanguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that...
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The Metropolitan Fifth Reader: Compiled for the Use of Colleges, Academies ...

Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1871 - 468 pages
...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,...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,...
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The Evolution of Economic Diversity

Antonio Nicita, Ugo Pagano - Business & Economics - 2001 - 460 pages
...intimate and traditional relationships. According to the romantic conservative Edmund Burke (1955: 8688), But the age of chivalry is gone. That of Sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded . . . The unbought grace of life ... is gone! . . . Nothing is left which engages the affection on...
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Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and a Defence

Lincoln Allison - History - 2001 - 228 pages
...even a look that threatened her with insult. - But the age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' But even Adam Smith, the apostle of commercialism, expressed his concern that a commercial society...
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Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'culture'

Philip Connell - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...the Utilitarians' (comp. 1833) But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Metaphysics, sir; metaphysics. Logic and...
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