 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 ... - Seite 183von Edmund Burke - 1804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 Seiten
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French Révolution. 1790). SPEECH OF CHAHAM... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 Seiten
...— that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...half its evil, by losing all its grossness." This soul and star of the French Court was also the friend of America, although born and brought up in a... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...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. vni uvrae TO ONE'S BELT. WHAT I mean by living to one's self is, living in the world, as in it, not... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say, " which distinguished... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 Seiten
...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 and long-admired... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...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. The Letters of Junius, which long since took their place among the standard works of English literature,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 Seiten
...Theresa, and Queen of LouU XVI., guillotined 1703. ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; nnd under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BURKE.1 FROM MR. SHERIDAN'S SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF MR. HASTINGS.2 • (Mr. Burke had, in opening the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 Seiten
...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, XXIX. ON the promontory of Misenus is yet standing the mansion of Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 Seiten
...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. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. 64. DECLARATION OP IRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Henry Gratton. Henry Grattan,... | |
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