 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...cheap defence of nations, thé nurse of manly sentiment and heroic entreprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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 MILTON. BURKE. FROM this very imperfect view of the qualities of Milton's poetry, we hasten to his... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse Ll_ of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. vni uvrae TO ONE'S BELT. WHAT I mean by living to one's self is, living in the world, as in it, not... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 pages
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . Chivalry, according to him, was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say, " which distinguished... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...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...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 brought up in a... | |
 | Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 pages
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize, is gone. It is gone; that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. The Letters of Junins, which long since took their place among the standard works of English literature,... | |
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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... 
