 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 Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 479by Edmund Burke - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility rom rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, AH [The Order of NobUity.} [From the вате.] To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gont ! It is gone, that sensibility Tice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossuees. [The Order ofNobilüy.] [From the tamo.]... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone ! that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...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... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility to principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage,...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 - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. LESSON CLXVIII. Intemperance. LYMAN BEECHER. COULD I call around me, in one vast assembly, the temperate... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...heroic enterprise — is jjone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of hon our, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage,...itself lost half its evil. by losing all its grossness. LESSON XXXIX. Story of the Siege of Calais. — BROOKE. EDWARD III. after the battle of Cressy, laid... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Bampton (England) - 1848 - 228 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...grossness." This mixed system of opinion and sentiment, he continues, had its origin in the ancient chivalry. And this ancient chivalry was in full vogue and... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1848 - 394 pages
...heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose any part of the foregoing... | |
 | 1848 - 524 pages
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a...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. It was written in... | |
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