The Broad Stone of Honour Or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Tancredus, Volume 1 |
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... prison with a drawn sword , crying , " Fais - moi chevalier , ou je te tue ; " to which the king replied , " Fais - toi Chrétien , et je te ferai chevalier . " In Spain , when nobility was to be made out , it was necessary to prove a ...
... prison with a drawn sword , crying , " Fais - moi chevalier , ou je te tue ; " to which the king replied , " Fais - toi Chrétien , et je te ferai chevalier . " In Spain , when nobility was to be made out , it was necessary to prove a ...
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... prisons from the light of the sun and from the solace of friend- ship ; yet they could exult in the words of the Psalm , " Quid enim mihi est in cœlo ? et a te quid volui super terram ? Defecit caro mea et cor meum : Deus cordis mei ...
... prisons from the light of the sun and from the solace of friend- ship ; yet they could exult in the words of the Psalm , " Quid enim mihi est in cœlo ? et a te quid volui super terram ? Defecit caro mea et cor meum : Deus cordis mei ...
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... prison by order of the same infidel rather than renounce Jesus Christ . Vertot relates , that the Che- valier de Temericourt , after gallantly defeating the Turkish fleet , was forced by a tempest upon the coast of Barbary , where he ...
... prison by order of the same infidel rather than renounce Jesus Christ . Vertot relates , that the Che- valier de Temericourt , after gallantly defeating the Turkish fleet , was forced by a tempest upon the coast of Barbary , where he ...
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... prison and tortured : he miraculously recovered from his wounds , and escaped , but was again imprisoned , and at length suf- fered martyrdom . He was the patron of England as early as the time of Richard I. He is also patron of Malta ...
... prison and tortured : he miraculously recovered from his wounds , and escaped , but was again imprisoned , and at length suf- fered martyrdom . He was the patron of England as early as the time of Richard I. He is also patron of Malta ...
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... prison . This meek and holy saint was more than conqueror over his enemies , who declared que c'étoit le plus fier Chrétien qu'ils eussent jamais connu . " In vain did they threaten him with the most dreadful torture , that which they ...
... prison . This meek and holy saint was more than conqueror over his enemies , who declared que c'étoit le plus fier Chrétien qu'ils eussent jamais connu . " In vain did they threaten him with the most dreadful torture , that which they ...
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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.