 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
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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. Burke. VI. WESTMINSTER HALL TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS. Warren Hastings was impeached by the House... | |
 | 1854 - 576 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...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its gropsness. M. DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS, 17SO. /fcnry Orattm. Henry Grattan, one of the most... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst i: mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. " This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origb in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 358 pages
... which ennobled whatever it " touched, which inspired courage, whilst it miti" gated ferocity, and under which vice itself lost half " its evil, by losing all its grossness," however captivated by the glowing colours and. seductive eloquence with which the pen of an all-accomplished... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 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. FORTY-FOURTH LESSON. NATIONAL GLOR.Y. Clay. Section 1. WE are asked, what have we gained by the war?... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 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 grossness.1" The revival of romance was inseparable from this ideology. The overt jingoism against... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pages
...veil over vices that degrade humanity" probably refers to Burke's argument that chivalry and honor had "ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness" (89). Wollstonecraft attacked this same passage elsewhere as well (VM 25). The part about the missing... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...departure of "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 idea of beauty as a garment that softens vice is a startling variation on the idea that prejudice... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, 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.' 1 9 James Boulton, in his account of Burke's political language, identifies this 'apostrophe' to the... | |
 | Gillian Perry - 1994 - 276 pages
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise ... under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness' (Reflections, p. 170). Thus in the October 1789 humiliation of the French royal family Burke sees a... | |
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