 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...  Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ... - Page 183by Edmund Burke - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 372 pages
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groffnefs. ^, This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
 | 1790 - 614 pages
...principie, that chaftity of honour, which telt a (tuin like a wound, which inipired courage whilil it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itlelf loll half its evil, by loling all its groflnefs.' The unbougbt grace of life is a phrafe to... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1790 - 606 pages
...principle, that challity of honour, which tele a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice iifelf loll half its evil, by lofing all its groffnefs.' Loud plaudits inform us that this is thought... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loit half }ts evil, by lofing all its grofl'nefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...principle, that chattily of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever ,it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
 | John Moore - France - 1793 - 644 pages
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilfc it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lojing (ill its groflhefs" Notwithftanding' the fplendid elegance . and... | |
 | 1797 - 700 pages
...principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whillr. it mitigated ferocity, ! which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfclf loft half its evil, by lofing all its grofihefs. ND s " This " This mixed fyflem of opinion... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1799 - 614 pages
...of principle, that rhaftity of honour, which ich a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf alfo loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflfnefs," Pp. .274, 275. — and declares it to... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 216 pages
...grasshopper." DAMPIER'S VOYAGE. EPISTLE TO BURKE. r. n8. L. 6. Mourns for the spirit of high honour fled. " This mixed 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... | |
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