 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pàgines
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." On the French Revolution, Burke and Fox were divided in sentiment. While the former, as has been stated,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pàgines
...lamb tly riot doom'd to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would lie skip and play ? CS 6. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever at touched, and under -which vice lost half its... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pàgines
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. FROM BURKE. LVIII.— RIENZI.— SCENE I. THIS and the succeeding scene may be spoken in connection,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pàgines
...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...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which rice itself lost half its evil, by losing aD its gropsness. i•; DECLARATION OF IRISH BIGHTS, 1780.—... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pàgines
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour...stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitiga'ed ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1858 - 264 pàgines
...Pudicum : " prae pudoreabstinentem."—Or. 83. Qui pr. honos. sc.'pudor.' As Burke has expressed it," That sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound." Cp. Juv. viii. 83.: Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori. 90. dolo aUO, 'by their own fault.'... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pàgines
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . . . which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.37 The age of reason is the age of sophisters who have fatally severed the glorious link... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pàgines
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the antient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 pàgines
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.' According to Burke, this system of values depends on acknowledging social hierarchy as both "natural"... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 pàgines
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.9 According to Burke, this system of values depends on acknowledging social hierarchy as... | |
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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... 
