 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...principle, that chastity of hon our, 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. LESSON XXXIX. Story of the Siege of Calais. — BROOKE. EDWARD III. after the battle of Cressy, laid... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. CONQUEST OP JERUSALEM BY THE CRUSADERS, AD 1009.— GIBBON. was not till after a long and obstinate... | |
 | 1848 - 816 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."* What a commentary on these well - known and long-admired... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1848 - 394 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... | |
 | 1848 - 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 touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil by losing all its grossness." The quotation is most apt to the times. It was written in... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly spirit and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. ON MILTON. BURKE. FROM this very imperfect view of the qualities of Milton's poetry, we hasten to his... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...Ll_ 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,...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." 13 These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting character observation, and prophetic foresight... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French Révolution. 1790). SPEECH OF CHAHAM... | |
 | Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 pages
...and heroic enterprize, is gone. It is gone; that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. " At six we repaired to the Hotel de France, adjoining the palace, and had a most excellent dinner... | |
 | 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... | |
| |
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... 
