 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...  Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ... - Page 183by Edmund Burke - 1804Full view - About this book
 | 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,...This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origb in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound,— which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...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... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 132 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...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. — Burke. EXERCISE XVIII. But Scipio could not be like Caesar. His mind rose above the state of things... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, 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 gropsness. M. DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS, 17SO. — /fcnry Orattm. Henry Grattan, one of the most... | |
 | 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
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity ; which...| 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?... | |
 | James Rush - 1855 - 582 pages
...of principle | that charity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired courage j whilst it mitigated ferocity | which ennobled whatever...lost | half its evil | by losing all its grossness. | * The agreeable effect of variety in the pausal sections, will perhaps be more conspicuous by contrasting... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. 5. Two NEIGHBORS AND THE HENS. In a conversation I had with a man in New Jersey, he told me this anecdote.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while ncey Allen Goodrich grossness.4 2 The "sharp antidote against disgrace" here mentioned was a dagger, which, it was then... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 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...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." The brutal assault of the mob on the royal family is thus depicted: — " History will record, that,... | |
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