 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 Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer - Page 34edited by - 1791Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 816 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honour, which 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 of its evil, by losing all its grossness."* What a commentary on these well - known... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...principle — that chastity of honor, which 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 its evil by losing all its grossness. ON MILTON. BURKE. FROM this very imperfect view... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 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 loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French Révolution.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which 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 its evil, by losing all its grossness." 13 These are the words of glowing genius,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 grossness. vni uvrae TO ONE'S BELT. WHAT I mean by living... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 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 e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honour, which 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 of its evil, by losing all its grossness."t What a commentary on these well-known... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...principle, that chastity of honor, 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 grossness." This soul and star of the French Court was... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. — BURKE. It here represents the " sensibility of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 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 grossness. The Letters of Junius, which long since took... | |
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