 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 489by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment has been... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 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,...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, though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 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,...chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprize, is " gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of princi" pie, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain " like...courage whilst " it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled what" ever it touched, and under which vice itself " lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprize, is " gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of princi" ple, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain " like...courage whilst " it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled what" ever it touched, and under which vice itself " lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."... | |
 | 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,...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, though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 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,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1811 - 386 pages
...The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired, courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, Ilie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...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, thougli... | |
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