 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...principle, that chastity of hon our, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil. by losing all its grossness. LESSON XXXIX. Story of the Siege of Calais. — BROOKE. EDWARD III. after the battle of Cressy, laid... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. CONQUEST OP JERUSALEM BY THE CRUSADERS, AD 1009.— GIBBON. was not till after a long and obstinate... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1848 - 394 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose any part of the foregoing... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 708 pages
...couple." — WEBEB, i. 32, 36. CHAP, unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse Ll_ of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility...These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting character observation, and prophetic foresight ; and cold, indeed, Que«n. must be that heart which... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — which inspired...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. ON MILTON. BURKE. FROM this very imperfect view of the qualities of Milton's poetry, we hasten to his... | |
 | Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - Paris (France) - 1850 - 586 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize, is gone. It is gone; that sensibility of principle,...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. " At six we repaired to the Hotel de France, adjoining the palace, and had a most excellent dinner... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. vni uvrae TO ONE'S BELT. WHAT I mean by living to one's self is, living in the world, as in it, not... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - Rhode Island - 1850 - 364 pages
...principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." This soul and star of the French Court was also the friend of America, although born and brought up... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. The Letters of Junius, which long since took their place among the standard works of English literature,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...Theresa, and Queen of LouU XVI., guillotined 1703. ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched ; nnd under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. BURKE.1 FROM MR. SHERIDAN'S SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF MR. HASTINGS.2 • (Mr. Burke had, in opening the... | |
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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 while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all... 
