 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...chastity of hon our, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it touched ; and...vice 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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | John Allen Giles - Bampton (England) - 1848 - 228 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." This mixed system of opinion and sentiment, he continues, had its origin in the ancient... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1848 - 394 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...which vice 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... | |
 | 1848 - 524 pages
...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. It was written in... | |
 | Scotland - 1848 - 816 pages
...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 and long-admired... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 708 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." 13 These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting character observation, and prophetic... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched; and...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. ON MILTON. BURKE. FROM this very imperfect view of the qualities of Milton's poetry, we... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...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. 1790). SPEECH OF CHAHAM... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - Rhode Island - 1850 - 364 pages
...that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." This soul and star of the French Court was also the friend of America, although born and... | |
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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... 
