 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...without an accurate examination, and from a superficial view of mankind. As a boorish address is no proof of honesty, so is politeness no indication of the...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...vice 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 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...vice 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... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...stain " like a wound, which inspired courage whilst " it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled what" ever it touched, and under which vice itself " lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." NOTES AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER I. ANXIOUS to give a complete history of... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...stain " like a wound, which inspired courage whilst " it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled what" ever it touched, and under which vice itself " lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." CHAPTER II. Immediate Causes, and remote Sources, of the French Pcvolution~~ Louis XIV.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain ike a wound, which inspired courage whilst k mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...vice 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... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 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...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MISS ELIZABETH SMITH. THE "Fragments in Prose and Verse," of this... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...chastity of honour, which felt a stain .like a wound,—which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; and...vice itself lost half its evil by losing; all its grossness.SECTION III. Panegyric on the British Constitution.Br a constitutional policy working after... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 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...vice 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
