| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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 pagina’s
...Ilie cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle, thougli G 3 varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pagina’s
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil^by losing all its This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry... | |
| 1848 - 802 pagina’s
...life — the cheap Tacitus. defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of ho1iour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. MR. CURRAN. JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN was born at Newmarket, a little village in the south of Ireland. His... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pagina’s
...principle,—that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound,—which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Section il1. PANEGYRIC ON THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. BY a constitutional policy working after the pattern... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pagina’s
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of...a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; and under which vice itself lost... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 522 pagina’s
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself tost half... | |
| John Moore - 1820 - 532 pagina’s
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ;' and adds, that with these are also fled ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
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