 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...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...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its crossness." It is the reality finely exemplified in the actions of Edward the Black... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...honor, 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. VIII. ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.—Burke. Mr. Speaker—For national service... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 434 pages
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 428 pages
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 718 pages
...principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — -which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity — which ennobled whatever...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness."* The gay joitst or single combat, lance against lance, and the magnificent... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...of prmciple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wouud, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...and under which, vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Yet inclined as we are to indulge in commendations of the spirit of chivalry,... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Politicians - 1839 - 480 pages
...institutions,—that cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, —that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Politicians - 1839 - 488 pages
...institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1839 - 480 pages
...institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
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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... 
