 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...it touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil, by losing all its grossness."t What a commentary on these well-known and long-admired... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. vni uvrae TO ONE'S BELT. WHAT I mean by living to one's self is, living in the world, as in it, not... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." This soul and star of the French Court was also the friend of America, although born and brought up... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say, " which distinguished... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. The Letters of Junius, which long since took their place among the standard works of English literature,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...Theresa, and Queen of LouU XVI., guillotined 1703. ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; nnd under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BURKE.1 FROM MR. SHERIDAN'S SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF MR. HASTINGS.2 • (Mr. Burke had, in opening the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is pone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor,...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.4 * The "sharp antidote against disgrace" hero mentioned wns a dagger, which, it wns then... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor,...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lust half its evil by losing all its grossness. 1 3 The "sharp antidoto against disgrace" here mentioned... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. 64. DECLARATION OP IRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Henry Gratton. Henry Grattan,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. M. DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Henry Orattm. Henry Grattan,... | |
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It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all... 
