 | John Moore - 1803 - 312 pages
...which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment has been... | |
 | John Moore - Scottish literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it indicated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its Notwithstanding the splendid elegance and force of this passage, the concluding sentiment 184 has been... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...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 grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...which felt a stain like a wound, Vhich inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, 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 chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | 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. — TTtff Regency... | |
 | 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 MARI AAK IKETTA,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...which felt a stain ike a wound, which inspired courage whilst k mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, 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 chivalry; and the principle,... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 its evil, by losing all its grossness. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MISS ELIZABETH SMITH. THE "Fragments in Prose and Verse," of this extraordinary,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...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 grossnes?. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 grossness.SECTION III. Panegyric on the British Constitution.Br a constitutional policy working after... | |
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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... 
