...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.—Burke. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 786. Martial Description. 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia...

...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." On the French Revolution, Burke and Fox were divided in sentiment. While the former, as has been stated,...

...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." What a Celtic fluency and gorgeousness in these false, false words ! In the composition of such a piece,...

...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. FROM BURKE. LVIII.— RIENZI.— SCENE I. THIS and the succeeding scene may be spoken in connection,...

...that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitiga'ed ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all iti grossness. The Letters of Junius, which long since took their place among the standard works of...

...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . . . which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.37 The age of reason is the age of sophisters who have fatally severed the glorious link...

...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the antient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human...

...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.' According to Burke, this system of values depends on acknowledging social hierarchy as both "natural"...

...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.9 According to Burke, this system of values depends on acknowledging social hierarchy as...

...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 lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness" (quoted by Price, Casebook, p. 242). This passage...