The Broad Stone of Honour: TrancredusB. Quaritch, 1846 - Chivalry |
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... virtue . How the Church condemned superstition . 377 • XXV . The present times less unfavourable to truth than the last three centuries . Still truth meets with great difficulties . The conclusion , giving a melancholy view of what is ...
... virtue . How the Church condemned superstition . 377 • XXV . The present times less unfavourable to truth than the last three centuries . Still truth meets with great difficulties . The conclusion , giving a melancholy view of what is ...
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... virtue . From this period we commence a new history of the human race ; for with eager rapture was this light hailed by the knightly and generous part of men : they had now fresh strength , higher motives , and a far nobler object ...
... virtue . From this period we commence a new history of the human race ; for with eager rapture was this light hailed by the knightly and generous part of men : they had now fresh strength , higher motives , and a far nobler object ...
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... and the source of every virtue which his conduct was to display . The first precept which was pressed upon the mind of youth was the love of God . 1 L'Orderie de Chevalerie . " The precepts of religion , " says M. Ste TANCREDUS . 7.
... and the source of every virtue which his conduct was to display . The first precept which was pressed upon the mind of youth was the love of God . 1 L'Orderie de Chevalerie . " The precepts of religion , " says M. Ste TANCREDUS . 7.
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... virtue , grant that I may never be opposed to thy pure and holy law , especially in times of danger , when a tempting enemy shall counsel me to forsake virtue . " Gilles de Rome says in his Miroir , that the knight and prince " doibt ...
... virtue , grant that I may never be opposed to thy pure and holy law , especially in times of danger , when a tempting enemy shall counsel me to forsake virtue . " Gilles de Rome says in his Miroir , that the knight and prince " doibt ...
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... virtue , the price and recompense of which is true honour , and it is useless to seek its identical point any where else . And if we wish to rise still higher above these precepts , we must imitate Jesus Christ our Saviour in forgiving ...
... virtue , the price and recompense of which is true honour , and it is useless to seek its identical point any where else . And if we wish to rise still higher above these precepts , we must imitate Jesus Christ our Saviour in forgiving ...
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Page 375 - 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 318 - But, oh ! the exceeding grace Of Highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace ; That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 180 - 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 96 - 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 334 - But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ! The youth who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 318 - 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...
Page 161 - 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 235 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...
Page 154 - 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 208 - ... 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.