 ... 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
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 oldal
...of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. CONQUEST OP JERUSALEM BY THE CRUSADERS, AD 1009.— GIBBON. was not till after a long and... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1848 - 394 oldal
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose any part... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 228 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...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." This mixed system of opinion and sentiment, he continues, had its origin in the ancient... | |
 | 1848 - 524 oldal
...of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which, inspired courage...it touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil by losing all its grossness." The quotation is most apt to the times. It was written in... | |
 | 1848 - 636 oldal
...grace of life — th iheap defence of nations, the nurse of manlv sentiments — is gone. I', s gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, ,wl.ich ennobled whatever it touched, and under vhich vice itself lost... | |
 | 1848 - 816 oldal
...of principle, that chastity of honour, which 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 of its evil, by losing all its grossness."* What a commentary on these well - known and long-admired... | |
 | 1848 - 588 oldal
...enterprise, is gone ;" that, we have lost " that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity ;." — may we not, — instead of joining in this eloquent lament, which the circumstances Burke was... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 oldal
...and heroic entreprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French Révolution. 1790). SPEECH OF CHAHAM... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 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." 13 These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting character observation, and prophetic... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 oldal
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly spirit and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of...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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