 | David Bromwich - Education - 1994 - 284 pages
...the thought in a dangerous paradox. He regrets that the loss of chivalry has meant the departure of "that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." The idea of beauty as a garment that softens vice is a startling variation... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 256 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 126-27 "We are at... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Fiction - 1996 - 332 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, ! ~! honor which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the antient... | |
 | Joseph Scotchie - Political Science - 1997 - 196 pages
...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment, is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.10 An argument from circumstance? Weaver still thought so. Kirk, on the other... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the 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... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - History - 1998 - 252 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. 21 Burke began by luxuriating in the radiance of royal splendor, sharing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1998 - 660 pages
...the glowing eloquence of his valediction to the spirit of chivalry. "It is gone," cries Mr. Burke; "that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half ils... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Maximilien Robespierre: 1794 Republican Frenchmen Maximilien Robespierre... | |
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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... 
