 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. 64. DECLARATION OP IRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Henry Gratton. Henry Grattan,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. * Born, 1755 ; beheaded, 1792. M. DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Henry Orattm. Henry Grattan,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its groasncss. * 64. DECLARATION OF lRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Heary Grattm. Heary Orattan, one of the most... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.4 * The "sharp antidote against disgrace" hero mentioned wns a dagger, which, it wns then... | |
 | 1852 - 454 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone — that sensihility of prinelple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated feroeity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself, lost half its evil by losing... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...nations. " in bodies of armed men always ready at • mnmcnt'i call, without expense to the sovereign This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and iht principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human affairs, subsisted and... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...nations, | the nurse of manly sentiment, | and heroic enterprise, | is gone> ! | It is gone, — | that sensibility of principle, — | that chastity...vice itself | lost half its evil, | by losing all its grossiness. | o BATTLE OF WARSAW. (CAMPBELL.) O sacred Truth ! | thy triumph ceas 'd1 awhile, | And... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1853 - 448 pages
...bought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
 | Henry G Ainslie Young - 1853 - 398 pages
...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 420 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
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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... 
