 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...  Second period: The middle age - Page 124by Joseph Henry Allen - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossnes?. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 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 - 1815 - 464 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,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 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 evil^by losing all its This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry... | |
 | 1848 - 802 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, — which inspired...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Section 111. PANEGYRIC ON THE BRITISH CONSTI. TUTION. BY a constitutional policy working after the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...gone,—that sensibility of principle,—that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound,—which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Section il1. PANEGYRIC ON THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. BY a constitutional policy working after the pattern... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...principle, that chastity of ho1iour, 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. MR. CURRAN. JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN was born at Newmarket, a little village in the south of Ireland. His... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all iti grossnm.' Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 pages
...;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself tost half its evil, by losing all ill grossness.' Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of... | |
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