The Broad Stone of Honour Or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Tancredus, Volume 1 |
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... blessing and his prayers following us ; as if he had no thought for himself , though we left him to await in soli- tude this night of horror . On entering the forest of Pine , the night had prematurely overtaken us , and the storm was ...
... blessing and his prayers following us ; as if he had no thought for himself , though we left him to await in soli- tude this night of horror . On entering the forest of Pine , the night had prematurely overtaken us , and the storm was ...
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... blessed Saviour , it pleased the Almighty Creator of the world to complete , for a great portion of men , the term of darkness , to remove their ignorance , and to assist their infirmities - to breathe into their nature a new life , a ...
... blessed Saviour , it pleased the Almighty Creator of the world to complete , for a great portion of men , the term of darkness , to remove their ignorance , and to assist their infirmities - to breathe into their nature a new life , a ...
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... blessings of their country and station , to defend the cause which was dear to them , and to protect from insult and wrong the persecuted servants of their Saviour . " the Godefrey of Bouillon , Robert count of Flanders , sword and ...
... blessings of their country and station , to defend the cause which was dear to them , and to protect from insult and wrong the persecuted servants of their Saviour . " the Godefrey of Bouillon , Robert count of Flanders , sword and ...
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... blessed Saviour lived and died for us ! " We have our honourable East India Company ; and the Dutch had their honourable companies to monopolise the riches and luxury of the East ; and is it for the lovers of chivalry -for the hoary ...
... blessed Saviour lived and died for us ! " We have our honourable East India Company ; and the Dutch had their honourable companies to monopolise the riches and luxury of the East ; and is it for the lovers of chivalry -for the hoary ...
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... blessed who canst defend it with thy arm . To be with Tancred was to be in safety ; to be without him in the army ... blessing and devoutly , reverenced , as of a reli- gious man fearing God . His mother was distinguished among the noble ...
... blessed who canst defend it with thy arm . To be with Tancred was to be in safety ; to be without him in the army ... blessing and devoutly , reverenced , as of a reli- gious man fearing God . His mother was distinguished among the noble ...
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Page 336 - AND is there care in heaven ? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is : else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts. But O ! th...
Page 198 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 393 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 114 - And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 179 - I love all waste And solitary places ; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be : And such was this wide ocean, and this shore More barren than its billows.
Page 172 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us. Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Page 291 - I humbly require you, in the honour of the son of the Virgin Mary, and for the love of me, that ye will take mercy of these six burgesses.
Page 226 - ... of education. Yet if we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists ; divinity will still call us heathens.
Page 267 - But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in Defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults, and sepulchres, Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 9 - For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.