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... Robert Southey's Life of Nelson - Pagina 149door Robert Southey - 1896 - 302 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Edmund Burke - 1790 - 372 pagina’s
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groffnefs. ^, This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
| 1790 - 614 pagina’s
...principie, that chaftity of honour, which telt a (tuin like a wound, which inipired courage whilil it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itlelf loll half its evil, by loling all its groflnefs.' The unbougbt grace of life is a phrafe to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1790 - 370 pagina’s
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1790 - 606 pagina’s
...principle, that challity of honour, which tele a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice iifelf loll half its evil, by lofing all its groffnefs.' Loud plaudits inform us that this is thought... | |
| James Anderson - 1791 - 422 pagina’s
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loit half }ts evil, by lofing all its grofl'nefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pagina’s
...principle, that chattily of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever ,it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
| John Moore - 1793 - 644 pagina’s
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilfc it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lojing (ill its groflhefs" Notwithftanding' the fplendid elegance . and... | |
| 1797 - 700 pagina’s
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whillr. it mitigated ferocity, ! which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfclf loft half its evil, by lofing all its grofihefs. ND s " This " This mixed fyflem of opinion... | |
| 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...of principle, that rhaftity of honour, which ich a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf alfo loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflfnefs," Pp. .274, 275. — and declares it to... | |
| 1814 - 640 pagina’s
...in the full fruition of what she has since so deplorably lost; — the soul of ancient chivalry; " that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which kept alive even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom."... | |
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