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... The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Página 479por Edmund Burke - 1835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 257 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 363 páginas
...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... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 páginas
...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... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 314 páginas
...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... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 946 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 702 páginas
...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... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 450 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Scotchie - 1997 - 161 páginas
...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... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 1998 - 229 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1999 - 326 páginas
...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... | |
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