The Broad Stone of Honour Or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Tancredus, Volume 1 |
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... holy land , not only in battle , but also in our commercial transactions , and in furnishing supplies for the host . The Britons , English , and other transmontane people , are less composed and more impe- tuous ; less circumspect in ...
... holy land , not only in battle , but also in our commercial transactions , and in furnishing supplies for the host . The Britons , English , and other transmontane people , are less composed and more impe- tuous ; less circumspect in ...
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... holy commands . To die beyond seas for his sacred name is better than to live in these regions with glory . Yes , life here is worse than death there . What is a life of infamy ? But to die braving glorious perils is to triumph over ...
... holy commands . To die beyond seas for his sacred name is better than to live in these regions with glory . Yes , life here is worse than death there . What is a life of infamy ? But to die braving glorious perils is to triumph over ...
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... holy se- pulchre and the fief of God . What a shame for the em- peror and kings that they do not cease their discords and their wars ! Ah , let them make peace , that they may unite to deliver the holy tomb , the divine lamp , the true ...
... holy se- pulchre and the fief of God . What a shame for the em- peror and kings that they do not cease their discords and their wars ! Ah , let them make peace , that they may unite to deliver the holy tomb , the divine lamp , the true ...
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... Holy Land , which was filled with their exploits and military glory ? " Villani , Bocacio , S. Antonin , Boulain Villiers , Voltaire ( if his judgment on an historical question is worth quoting ) , St. Foix , Arnaud , and Bossuet , have ...
... Holy Land , which was filled with their exploits and military glory ? " Villani , Bocacio , S. Antonin , Boulain Villiers , Voltaire ( if his judgment on an historical question is worth quoting ) , St. Foix , Arnaud , and Bossuet , have ...
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... holy places at Jerusalem but once ; and then he stayed only one day . He went once , that he might not seem to despise that de- votion ; but he did not go oftener , lest he should seem per- suaded that God , or his religious worship ...
... holy places at Jerusalem but once ; and then he stayed only one day . He went once , that he might not seem to despise that de- votion ; but he did not go oftener , lest he should seem per- suaded that God , or his religious worship ...
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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.