 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
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. LESSON CLXVIII. Intemperance. LYMAN BEECHER. COULD I call around me, in one vast assembly, the temperate... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated [ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. " But all is now changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle, and obedience liberal,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...a st'ain/ like a wou'nd, — which inspired co'urage/ whilst it mitigated ferocity, which enno'bied whatever it touch"ed ; and under whic'h/ vice itself/ lost half its e'vil, by lo'sing all its grAossness. THE COMMON LOT. MONTGOMERY. ON'CE/ in the flight of ages pa'st, There lived a nm n ; —... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scat23 age whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evils by losing all its grossness. JUNIUS. (1769-1772.) [THE ablest writer of invective in the English... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...miserable. That chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all ite grossness, is gone. Let conquerors boast Their fields of fame, he who in virtue arms A young, warm... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 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 obstinate... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...honor, \ / which felt a stain, like a wound ; \ / which inspired courage, whilst it mi tiga ted || ferocity;\ which ennobled whatever it touched; \ and...under which || vice itself, \ lost half || its evil, FAMILIAR RHYTHM. We have hitherto furnished such examples only, as exhibit rhythms of the most striking... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...miserable. That chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself tost half its evil by losing all its grossness, is gone. Let conquerors boast Their fields of fame,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...principle, that chastity of hon our, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it touched...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 Cressy, laid... | |
 | 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 obstinate... | |
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