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... Works - Página 111por Edmund Burke - 1792Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 páginas
...be miserable. 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 ite grossness, is gone. Let conquerors boast Their fields of... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...principle, that chastity of hon our, 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. LESSON XXXIX. Story of the Siege of Calais.... | |
| 1848 - 524 páginas
...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 of its evil by losing all its grossness." The quotation is most apt to the times.... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1848 - 394 páginas
...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." Little surely does he know of the llth century... | |
| 1848 - 816 páginas
...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... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 páginas
...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,... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...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. ON MILTON. BURKE. FROM this very imperfect view... | |
| Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 páginas
...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 loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French Révolution.... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 páginas
...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."t What a commentary on these well-known... | |
| Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 páginas
...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 e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say,... | |
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