 ... 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
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty ; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...citizens regard their chief magistrate. Men who had teen used to swear fealty, to profess subjection, to follow, at home and in the field, a feudal superior... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1853 - 536 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...slaves, and from the abstract respect with which free citizeas regard their chief magistrate. Men who had been used to swear fealty, to profess subjection,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Civilization, Medieval - 1856 - 576 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...regard their chief magistrate. Men who had been used t« 124 ITALY. 125 low, at home nod ii the field, a feudal su-i perior and his family, easily transferred... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1858 - 868 pages
...sentiment of personal rcvcr! ciice and attachment towards a sovereign, I which we denominate loyalty ; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of ! eastern slaves, and from the abstract re; spect with which free cUiiens regard their , chief magist rate. Men who hud been used to swear... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...powerful feeling, which could make the bravest men pilt up with slights and ill-treatment at the hands of their sovereign ; or call forth all the energies... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1868 - 378 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... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1871 - 672 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...fealty, to profess subjection, to follow, at home, and iu the field, a feudal superior and his family, easily transferred the same allegiance to the monarch.... | |
 | Henrietta Sullivan - Thought and thinking - 1871 - 232 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment to a sovereign which we denominate loyalty, alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...which free citizens regard their chief magistrate." — History of the Middle Ages, close of chap. ii. One might suppose that the evident derivation of... | |
 | Henrietta Sullivan - Thought and thinking - 1871 - 236 pages
...peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment to a sovereign which we denominate loyalty, alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of...which free citizens regard their chief magistrate." — History of the Middle Ages, close of chap. ii. One might suppose that the evident derivation of... | |
 | Robert Furley - Kent (England) - 1874 - 450 pages
...diffused a spirit of liberty and the notion of private right. It was a school of moral discipline. Men who had been used to swear fealty, to profess...family, easily transferred the same allegiance to their monarch, and by these feelings our national loyalty was fostered. Is it not to be feared that... | |
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