...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...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...

...the thought in a dangerous paradox. He regrets that the loss of chivalry has meant the departure of "that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a...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...

...monarchy. Moreover, all Europe shared a common culture based on the same traditional moral values: "this mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations even to the time we live in." 17 However, like all great human...

...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 126-27 "We are at such prodigious expence of...

...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally...

...sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor through a long succession of generations even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally...

...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...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally...

...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the antient chivalry; and the principle, though varied in its appearance by the varying state of human...

...life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment, is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.10 An argument from circumstance? Weaver still thought so. Kirk, on the other hand, was the...

...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. 21 Burke began by luxuriating in the radiance of royal splendor, sharing with his readers the magical...