 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...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 its This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...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 of its evil, by losing all its grossness."* What a commentary on these well - known and long-admired... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...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...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Section il1. PANEGYRIC ON THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. BY a constitutional policy working after the pattern... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...that chastity of ho1iour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. MR. CURRAN. JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN was born at Newmarket, a little village in the south of Ireland. His... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 532 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all iti grossnm.' Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry , and the principle,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, — which ennobled whatever it touched;...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. PART OF THE BURIAL SERVICE. (From the Book of Common Prayer.) I AM the resurrection and the life, saith... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 448 pages
...chastity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated ferocity | which ennobled whatever it touched | and...lost | half its evil | by losing all its grossness. | The effect of the variety 1 am endeavouring to illustrate, may perhaps be made more conspicuous by... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated This mi t oil system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
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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... 
