 ... that sensibility of principle that chastity of honor 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 its grossness.  The North American Review - 510. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1836Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 oldal
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 458 oldal
...principle, that chaftity of honour, \vhich felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage \vhilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf lolt half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 oldal
...and heroic enterprize is gone ! It Is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 oldal
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 oldal
...heroic enterprize, is " gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of princi" pie, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain " like a wound, which inspired...courage whilst " it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled what" ever it touched, and under which vice itself " lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 oldal
...heroic enterprize, is " gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of princi" ple, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain " like a wound, which inspired...courage whilst " it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled what" ever it touched, and under which vice itself " lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 oldal
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain ike a wound, which inspired courage whilst k mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 oldal
...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 oldal
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired, courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MISS ELIZABETH SMITH. THE "Fragments in Prose and Verse," of this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 oldal
...and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the... | |
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