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... The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer - Page 34edited by - 1791Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...nations, the nurfe of manly fentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its grollhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...nations, the nurfe of manly fentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility o£ principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 380 pages
...nations, the nurfe of manly fentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itielt loft half its evil, by lofing all its grofihefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1790 - 606 pages
...enterprize is gone! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that challity of honour, which tele a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilft...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice iifelf loll half its evil, by lofing all its groffnefs.' Loud plaudits inform us that this is thought... | |
| 1790 - 614 pages
...principie, that chaftity of honour, which telt a (tuin like a wound, which inipired courage whilil it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itlelf loll half its evil, by loling all its groflnefs.' The unbougbt grace of life is a phrafe to... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 418 pages
...fentiment and heroic1 enterprize is gone : It is gone, that fenftbility of principle, that ehaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which...ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groffhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its... | |
| Joseph Priestley - France - 1791 - 202 pages
...fentiment and heroic " enterprize, is gone. It is gone; that fenfibility of " principle, that chafthy of honour, which felt a " ftain like a. wound, which infpired courage whiift -" k mitigated ferocity, which enobled whatever k '< touched, and .under which vice kfelf loft... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...manly fentiment and heroic enterprise Is gone ! It is gone, that feniibUity 6f principle, that chattily of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which...whatever ,it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft half its evil, by lofing all its groflhefs. This mixed fyftem of opinion and fentiment had its... | |
| John Moore - France - 1793 - 644 pages
...itfelf, the fpirit of an exalted freedom j" and adds, that with thefe are alfo fled " that fenfibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whilfc it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfelf loft... | |
| 1797 - 700 pages
...nations, the nurfe of manly fentimenr and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that fenfibility of principle, that chaftity of honour, which felt a ftain like a wound, which infpired courage whillr. it mitigated ferocity, ! which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itfclf loft... | |
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