 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 680 pages
...freedom. The unbought grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 680 pages
...freedom. The unbought grace of life — the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - Rhode Island - 1850 - 364 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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. The Letters of Junins, which long since took their place among the standard... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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,...wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated 1 Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa, and Queen of LouU XVI., guillotined 1703.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...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 vice lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. — BURKE. It here represents the " sensibility of... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...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. Burke, XXIX. ON the promontory of Misenus is yet standing the mansion of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 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 groasncss. * 64. DECLARATION OF lRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Heary Grattm. Heary Orattan,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, 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.4 * The "sharp antidote against disgrace" hero mentioned wns a dagger, which,... | |
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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... 
