 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...  Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ... - Página 183por Edmund Burke - 1804Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 páginas
...which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which enobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. But now, all is to be changed All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle, and obedience liberal;... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 páginas
...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 lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 páginas
...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 lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which Tice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossuees. [The Order ofNobilüy.] [From the tamo.]... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 366 páginas
...gone, that sensibility to principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. " But all is now changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle, and obedience liberal,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 páginas
...gone, that .sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. LESSON CLXVIII. Intemperance. DR. BEECHEK. COULD I call around me, in one vast assembly, the temperate... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evils by losing all its grossness. JUNIUS. (1769-1772.) [THE ablest writer of invective in the English... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...a st'ain/ like a wou'nd, — which inspired co'urage/ whilst it mitigated ferocity, which enno'bied whatever it touch"ed ; and under whic'h/ vice itself/ lost half its e'vil, by lo'sing all its grAossness. THE COMMON LOT. MONTGOMERY. ON'CE/ in the flight of ages pa'st, There lived a nm n ; —... | |
 | 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...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all ite grossness, is gone. Let conquerors boast Their fields of fame, he who in virtue arms A young, warm... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 páginas
...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 obstinate... | |
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