The History of Chivalry

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H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - 348 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 219 - Renaissance in the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century...
الصفحة 14 - It first taught devotion and reverence to those weak, fair beings, who But in their beauty and their gentleness have no defence. It first raised love above the passions of the brute, and by dignifying woman, made woman worthy of love. It gave purity to enthusiasm, crushed barbarous selfishness, taught the heart to expand like a flower to the sunshine, beautified glory with generosity, and smoothed even the rugged brow of war.
الصفحة 56 - He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
الصفحة 333 - ... au temps à venir, et quand je serai mort, sera cette haute et noble histoire en grand cours, et y prendront tous nobles et vaillants hommes plaisance et exemple de bien faire; et entrementes...
الصفحة 8 - ... were nursed and baptized the vindicators of freedom in the old world, and the sublime messengers of freedom to the new. There is one important element more, contributing not a little to bring society to the point at which we have now arrived. " Charlemagne," to use the words of an elegant writer, " expired like a meteor, that, having broken suddenly upon the night of ages, and blazed brilliantly over the whole world for a brief space, fell, and left all in darkness even deeper than before.
الصفحة 81 - I'll pay her off soon." Accordingly she issued invitations for a grand ball and supper, at which both Mrs. Shuttle and Mrs. Hubblebubble were struck dumb at beholding a suit of curtains and a set of chairs exactly of the same pattern with theirs. The shock was terrible, and it is impossible to say what might have been the consequences had not the two ladies all at once thought of uniting in abusing Mrs. Doubletrouble for her extravagance. "I pity poor Mr. Doubletrouble,
الصفحة 3 - ... became invested, were only, in truth, the signs by which it was conventionally agreed that those persons .who had proved in their initiate they possessed the spirit, should be distinguished from the other classes of society.
الصفحة 341 - V^ASSIAN (2) traitant des habits et des vétemens des anciens moines d'Egypte , dit qu'ils se revétoient d'un habit fait de peaux de chèvre , que l'on appelloit melotes, et qu'ils portoient ordinairement l'escarcelle et le bâton. Les termes de cet auteur ne sont pas toutefois bien clairs, en cet endroit-là : Ultimus est...
الصفحة 24 - In the name of God, St. Michael and St. George, I make thee knight.
الصفحة 334 - Et tout ainsi comme je l'imaginai il m'en advint; et remontrai ce, et le voyage que je voulois faire, à mon très cher et redouté seigneur, monseigueur le comte deBlois, lequel me bailla ses lettres de familiarité adressants au comte de Foix.

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