 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...grâce of life, thé cheap defence of nations, thé nurse of manly sentiment and heroic entreprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...36. CHAP, unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse Ll_ of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly spirit and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. vni uvrae TO ONE'S BELT. WHAT I mean by... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 pages
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . Chivalry, according to him, was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
 | Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize, is gone. It is gone; that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...freedom. The unbought grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...freedom. The unbought grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...— that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. The Letters of Junius, which long since... | |
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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... 
