 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 Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer - Seite 34herausgegeben von - 1791Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 Seiten
...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 its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 Seiten
...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 its grossness. Burke, XXIX. ON the promontory of Misenus is... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...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 groasncss. * 64. DECLARATION OF lRISH RIGHTS, 1780. —... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 Seiten
...of principle, that chastity of honor, 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 its evil by losing all its grossness.4 * The "sharp antidote against disgrace" hero... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 Seiten
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lust half its evil by losing all its grossness. 1 3 The "sharp antidoto against disgrace" here... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...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. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. M. DECLARATION... | |
 | Henry G Ainslie Young - 1853 - 398 Seiten
...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 its evil, by losing all its grossness. Burke. THE events which we are endeavouring... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 Seiten
...that chastity of hon'our, | which felt a stain like a wound,, — | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated fero'city, — | which enno'bled whatever it touched ; | and under which, | vice itself | lost half its evil, | by losing all its grossiness. | o BATTLE OF WARSAW. (CAMPBELL.) O sacred... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 420 Seiten
...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 its evil, by losing all its grossness." 13. These are the words of glowing genius,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1853 - 448 Seiten
...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 its evil, by losing all its grossness." 18. These are the words of glowing genius,... | |
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