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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 479
by Edmund Burke - 1835
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It Is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we 183 live in. If it should ever be totally...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we 183 live in. If it should ev er be totally...
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Sonnets, and Other Poems

William Lisle Bowles - 1805 - 216 pages
...grasshopper." DAMPIER'S VOYAGE. EPISTLE TO BURKE. p. 118. L. 6. Mourns for the spirit of high honour fed. " This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain ike a wound, which inspired courage whilst k mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...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...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...gone,—that sensibility of principle,—that chastity of honour, which felt a stain .like a wound,—which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...vice itself lost half its evil by losing; all its grossness.SECTION III. Panegyric on the British Constitution.Br a constitutional policy working after...
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American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ...

1811 - 386 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired, courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MISS ELIZABETH SMITH. THE "Fragments in Prose and Verse," of this extraordinary,...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle, thougli G 3 varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...nations, the nurse of of manly sentiment and heroick enterprisfe is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...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...
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