 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 358 páginas
...— which ennobled whatever it " touched, — which inspired courage, whilst it miti" gated ferocity, and under which vice itself lost half " its evil, by losing all its grossness," — however captivated by the glowing colours and. seductive eloquence with which the pen of an all-accomplished... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 páginas
...deceptive reasoned. " Loyalty, fidelity, regard, usually it signifies fidelity to the king. mission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the...| lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. FORTY-FOURTH LESSON. NATIONAL GLOR.Y. Clay. Section 1. WE are asked, what have we gained by the war?... | |
 | James Rush - 1855 - 582 páginas
...of principle | that charity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired courage j whilst it mitigated ferocity | which ennobled whatever...lost | half its evil | by losing all its grossness. | * The agreeable effect of variety in the pausal sections, will perhaps be more conspicuous by contrasting... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 páginas
...sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. 5. Two NEIGHBORS AND THE HENS. In a conversation I had with a man in New Jersey, he told me this anecdote.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 páginas
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while ncey Allen Goodrich grossness.4 2 The "sharp antidote against disgrace" here mentioned was a dagger, which, it was then... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 páginas
...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...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.1" The revival of romance was inseparable from this ideology. The overt jingoism against... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 páginas
...veil over vices that degrade humanity" probably refers to Burke's argument that chivalry and honor had "ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness" (89). Wollstonecraft attacked this same passage elsewhere as well (VM 25). The part about the missing... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 páginas
...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.' 1 9 James Boulton, in his account of Burke's political language, identifies this 'apostrophe' to the... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 páginas
...dangerous paradox. He regrets that the loss of chivalry has meant the departure of "that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." The idea of beauty as a garment that softens vice is a startling variation on the idea that prejudice... | |
 | Gillian Perry - 1994 - 276 páginas
...grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise ... under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness' (Reflections, p. 170). Thus in the October 1789 humiliation of the French royal family Burke sees a... | |
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It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, 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... 
