 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
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 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...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which rice itself lost half its evil, by losing aD its gropsness. i•; DECLARATION OF IRISH BIGHTS, 1780.—... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 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...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. — From R<Jkctions on the Revolution in France. THE DEAD Ass. — (STERJJE.) "AND this," said he (putting... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiments and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Emperor of Germany, Catherine of Russia, and the French princes, transmitted to Mr. Burke their warm... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! 5 It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which 6 vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. EDMUND BURKE. CHIVALRY AND MODERN MANNERS.... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by Josing all its grossness. BURKE. ON NEGRO SLAVERY. I trust that at length the time is come, when parliament... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. VI.—THE SWOBD OF -WASHHSrGTOIf AND THE STAFF OF FHANKLIir. (JoHN (JUINCY ADAMS.) John Qulncy Adams,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 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...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossnesa. I CHAPTER V. WILLIAM COWPEE. Born 1731 AD .....Died 1800 AD The sensitive-plant A kind mother.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 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...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossneas. CHILDHOOD OF COWPER. 379 CHAPTER V. WILLIAM COWPER. Born 1731 AD .....Died 1800 AD The sensitive-plant... | |
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