The Broad Stone of Honour Or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Tancredus, Volume 1 |
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... fear the death of the body ; it is the death of the soul that we should fear , as St. Matthew teaches . The time is come when we shall see who are the men that obey the laws of the Eternal : know ye , that he calls only the valiant and ...
... fear the death of the body ; it is the death of the soul that we should fear , as St. Matthew teaches . The time is come when we shall see who are the men that obey the laws of the Eternal : know ye , that he calls only the valiant and ...
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... fear , to pride , or to luxury ? Who more ready when called ? who more willing ? who more placable when offended ? Blessed be God , who hath reserved you to be the guard of his people ; and thou art blessed who canst defend it with thy ...
... fear , to pride , or to luxury ? Who more ready when called ? who more willing ? who more placable when offended ? Blessed be God , who hath reserved you to be the guard of his people ; and thou art blessed who canst defend it with thy ...
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... fear much that you are about to make me commit a sottish folly ' and so he tore the letter . Well , I was vain , and full of haughty spirits , and away I hastened to the con- vent . It was after dinner . The monks were coming out of the ...
... fear much that you are about to make me commit a sottish folly ' and so he tore the letter . Well , I was vain , and full of haughty spirits , and away I hastened to the con- vent . It was after dinner . The monks were coming out of the ...
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... fear to lay down his life for his sheep , and we will lay down our life for our flock , since in no other way can we bear assist- ance to the Christian religion , that it be not trodden down by the Turkish men . We will mount the ship ...
... fear to lay down his life for his sheep , and we will lay down our life for our flock , since in no other way can we bear assist- ance to the Christian religion , that it be not trodden down by the Turkish men . We will mount the ship ...
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... fear of God : " he ought to be fervent in prayer for the love of Jesus Christ ; to have reverence and devotion towards the Church ; to be humble in himself ; to have reasonable knowledge ; to be stable in perseverance , and constant in ...
... fear of God : " he ought to be fervent in prayer for the love of Jesus Christ ; to have reverence and devotion towards the Church ; to be humble in himself ; to have reasonable knowledge ; to be stable in perseverance , and constant in ...
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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.