 ... beneficent suzerain, against such powerful aggression, as left little prospect except of sharing in his ruin. ' From these feelings, engendered by the feudal relation, has sprung up the peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 241by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1818 - 554 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty ; alike . distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...transferred the same allegiance to the monarch. It was .&. very powerful feeling, which could make the bravest men put up with slights and ill treatment at... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...magistrate, Men who had been . used to swear fealty, to profets subjection, to follow, at home and in tbe field, a feudal superior and his family, easily transferred... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Civilization, Medieval - 1822 - 624 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...could make the bravest men put up with slights and ill treatment at the hands of their sovereign; or call forth all the energies of disinterested exertion... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1826 - 582 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...very powerful feeling, which could make the bravest man put up with slights and ill treatment at the hands of their sovereign; or call forth all the energies... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...could make the bravest men put up with slights and ill treatment at the hands of their sovereign ; or call forth all the energies of disinterested exertion... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 576 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...been used to swear fealty, to profess subjection, to fol124 PART II.] 125 low, at borne and in the field, a feudal superior and his family, easily transferred... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty, alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...very powerful feeling which could make the bravest man put up with slights and ill treatment at the hands of his sovereign, or call forth all the energies... | |
 | John Dunlop - Associations, institutions, etc - 1840 - 260 pages
..." The peculiar sentiment of personal reverence towards a sovereign which we denominate loyalty, is alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...which free citizens regard their chief magistrate. . . . It was a powerful feeling, which could make the bravest men put up with slights and illtreatment... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Feudalism - 1844 - 168 pages
...peculiar sentiments of personal reverence and attachment toward a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...to swear fealty, to profess subjection, to follow a feudal superior and his family at home and in the field, easily transferred the same allegiance to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...attachment towards * lorereign, which we denominate loy16 alty ; alike distinguishable from the stupiil devotion of eastern slaves, and from the abstract...free citizens regard their chief magistrate. Men who hat! been used to swear fealty, to profcí-s subjection, to follow, at home and in the field, a feudal... | |
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