 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
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. M. DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Henry Orattm. Henry Grattan,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its groasncss. * 64. DECLARATION OF lRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Heary Grattm. Heary Orattan, one of the most... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pagina’s
...nations," in bodies of nrmed men always ready at a moment's call, without expense to the sovereign This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pagina’s
...nations," in bodies of nrmed men nlwnys ready at a moment's call, without expense to the sovereign This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its...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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pagina’s
...nurse of manly sentiment, | and heroic enterprise, | is gone> ! | It is gone, — | that sensibility of principle, — | that chastity of hon'our, | which...vice itself | lost half its evil, | by losing all its grossiness. | o BATTLE OF WARSAW. (CAMPBELL.) O sacred Truth ! | thy triumph ceas 'd1 awhile, | And... | |
 | Henry G Ainslie Young - 1853 - 398 pagina’s
...of 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. Burke. THE events which we are endeavouring to record, occurred at a time when the glory, happiness... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 420 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...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." 13. These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting observation, and prophetic foresight; and... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1853 - 448 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...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." 18. These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting observation, and prophetic foresight; and... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 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 ibe 'totally... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1854 - 132 pagina’s
...of 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. — Burke. EXERCISE XVIII. But Scipio could not be like Caesar. His mind rose above the state of things... | |
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