 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 Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Pagina 479door Edmund Burke - 1835Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 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... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pagina’s
...nations, the nur?e of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which rice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grotsness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pagina’s
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness ! FEAR OF GOD. It were endless to enumerate all the passages, both in the sacred and profane writers,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pagina’s
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. PART OF THE BURIAL SERVICE. (From the Book of Common Prayer.) I AM the resurrection and the life, saith... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 448 pagina’s
...several durations of those pauses. It is gone | that sensibility of principle | that chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired...lost | half its evil | by losing all its grossness. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring to illustrate, may perhaps be made more conspicuous by... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 432 pagina’s
...several durations of those pauses. It IB gone | that sensibility of principle | that chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired...whatever it touched | and under which | vice itself | lout | half its-evil | by losing all its grossness. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pagina’s
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility nd mi t oil system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pagina’s
...exalted freedom ; that untaught grace of life, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its crossness." It is the reality finely exemplified in the actions of Edward the Black Prince, showing... | |
| |
