 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 652 pages
...so deplorably — • -•lost; — the soul of ancient chivalry; " that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which kept alive even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom."... | |
 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...of an exalted freedom ;" and adds, " that with these, are also fled that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | John Moore - Scottish literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...of an exalted freedom ;" and adds, " that with these, are also fled that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It Is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment aujj^heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired, courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil^by losing all its This mixed system... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...nurse of of manly sentiment and heroick enterprisfe is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of ho1iour, 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 its grossness. MR.... | |
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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... 
