 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...  Works - Page 111by Edmund Burke - 1792Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 370 pages
...fentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility o£ principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which...principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying ftate of human affairs, fubfifted and influenced through a long fucceflion of generations, even to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 536 pages
...fentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which...vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its grollhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its origin in the antient chivalry; and the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 380 pages
...fentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itielt loft half its evil, by lofing all its grofihefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1790 - 606 pages
...enterprize is gone! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that challity of honour, which tele a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Anderson - 1791 - 422 pages
...fentiment and heroic enterprife, is gone ! It is gone ! that fcnlibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, 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, had its... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1791 - 202 pages
...fentiment and heroic " enterprize, is gone. It is gone; that fenfibility of " principle, that chafthy of honour, which felt a " ftain like a. wound, which infpired courage whiift -" k mitigated ferocity, which enobled whatever k '< touched, and .under which vice kfelf loft... | |
 | John Moore - 1793 - 636 pages
...of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a fta'm like a wound, which infpired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft htilj its evil, by lofmg ftll its griefs." Notwithftanding the fplendid elegance and force of this... | |
 | John Moore - 1793 - 644 pages
...exalted freedom j" and adds, that with thefe are alfo fled " that fenfibility of 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... | |
 | 1797 - 700 pages
...fentimenr and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility of 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... | |
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