...and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." This mixed system of opinion and sentiment, he continues, had its origin in the ancient chivalry. And this...

...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...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...

...of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which, inspired courage...it touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil by losing all its grossness." The quotation is most apt to the times. It was written in...

...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 of its evil, by losing all its grossness."* What a commentary on these well - known and long-admired...

...and heroic entreprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...and under which vice itself lost half its evil by loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND BURKE (Reflections on thé French Révolution. 1790). SPEECH OF CHAHAM...

...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it...lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." 13 These are the words of glowing genius, of reflecting character observation, and prophetic foresight...

...principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...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...

...and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...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...

...exalted freedom . Chivalry, according to him, was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...touched, and under which vice itself lost half its e vil by losing all its grossness. " It was this chivalry," he continues to say, " which distinguished...

...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 of its evil, by losing all its grossness."t What a commentary on these well-known and long-admired...