 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 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. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry , and the principle,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...principle, — that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, — which ennobled whatever...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. PART OF THE BURIAL SERVICE. (From the Book of Common Prayer.) I AM the resurrection and the life, saith... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 448 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. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring to illustrate, may perhaps be made more conspicuous by... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 432 pages
...principle | that chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated ferocity | which ennobled whatever it touched | and under which | vice itself | lout | half its-evil | by losing all its grossness. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst EfR ~ This mi t oil system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst a whirlwind of cavalry, and amid the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 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...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its crossness." It is the reality finely exemplified in the actions of Edward the Black Prince, showing... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...honor, 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 its grossness. VIII. ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.—Burke. Mr. Speaker—For national service of whatever kind, whether... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 432 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." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose any part of the foregoing... | |
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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... 
