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Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study - Page 247
by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1892
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The philosophy of the human voice: embracing its physiological history [&c.].

James Rush - 1833 - 448 pages
...without designating the several durations of those pauses. It is gone | that sensibility of principle | that chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated ferocity | which ennobled whatever it touched | and under which...
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The North American Review, Volume 42

Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pages
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ; that untaught grace of life, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 5; Volume 11

1838 - 716 pages
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle — 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...
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...
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Miscellaneous Writings of George W. Burnap ... Collected and Revised by the ...

George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility to principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated [ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...|| of manly sentiment || and heroic enteris gone. It is gone, || that sensibility || of principle, \ that chastity || of honor, \ / which felt a stain, like a wound ; \ / which inspired courage, whilst it mi tiga ted || ferocity;\ which ennobled whatever it touched; \ and under...
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A Practical Grammar of the English Language

Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...looks upon his fellow men with suspicion, who sees around Km nothing but enemies, must be 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...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ...

George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...
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The Art of Elocution: Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation. With ...

George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...
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