 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 the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 93by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 372 pages
...lofing all its groffnefs. ^, This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its origin in the antient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying ftate of human aflairs, fubfifted and influenced through a long fucceffion of generations, even to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its origin in the antient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying ftate of human affairs, fubfifted and influenced through a long fucceflion of generations, even to... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...itfelf loit half }ts evil, by lofing all its grofl'nefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment, had its origin in the ancient chivalry : and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying ilate of human affairs, i^biifted and influenced through a long lucceflion of generations, even to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its origin in the, antient chivalry ; and the principle^ though varied in its appearance by the varying uate pf human affairs, fubfifted and influenced through a long fucce.ffion of generations, even to... | |
 | 1797 - 700 pages
...half its evil, by lofing all its grofihefs. ND s " This " This mixed fyflem of opinion and fentiment 'had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the...principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying ftate of human affairs, iubfifted and influenced through a long fucceffion of generations, even 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... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1800 - 208 pages
...grasskopper." DAMPIER'S VOYAGE. EPISTLE TO BURKE. p. 118. 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... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment has been... | |
 | John Moore - Scottish literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment 184 has been... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 458 pages
...itfelf lolt half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying ftate of human affairs, fubfifted and influenced through a long fuccefiion of generations, even to... | |
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