| John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment has been... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...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 principle,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...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 principle,... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...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." NOTES AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER I. ANXIOUS to give a complete history of MARI AAK IKETTA,... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...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." CHAPTER II. Immediate Causes, and remote Sources, of the French Pcvolution~~ Louis XIV. — TTtff Regency... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain ike a wound, which inspired courage whilst k mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...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 principle,... | |
| 1811 - 386 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MISS ELIZABETH SMITH. THE "Fragments in Prose and Verse," of this extraordinary,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...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 principle,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...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 principle,... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle,...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Section 111. PANEGYRIC ON THE BRITISH CONSTI. TUTION. BY a constitutional policy working after the... | |
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