The Broad Stone of Honour Or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Tancredus, Volume 1 |
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... replied , " for you lead them down an easy descent ; but I am for forcing them to mount to virtue - an arduous ascent , and unknown to most men . ' He who appeals to the pride of reason , to the love of independence , and to the 1 Cont ...
... replied , " for you lead them down an easy descent ; but I am for forcing them to mount to virtue - an arduous ascent , and unknown to most men . ' He who appeals to the pride of reason , to the love of independence , and to the 1 Cont ...
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... replied , " Amy , bien pouvez croire certainement que l'empereur fera demain de grandes au- mones , il departira de ses biens tant et si largement que tous pauvres qui la seront venus seront assouvis , car de plus preud'homme ne de plus ...
... replied , " Amy , bien pouvez croire certainement que l'empereur fera demain de grandes au- mones , il departira de ses biens tant et si largement que tous pauvres qui la seront venus seront assouvis , car de plus preud'homme ne de plus ...
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... replied , " Pelerin , n'en faites doute quelconque n'avoir ce que vous ay promis des main- tenant je le vous octroye ; mais je vous suplie tres - hum- blement que dire me vueillez quel homme vous etes et de quel pais et de quel lignages ...
... replied , " Pelerin , n'en faites doute quelconque n'avoir ce que vous ay promis des main- tenant je le vous octroye ; mais je vous suplie tres - hum- blement que dire me vueillez quel homme vous etes et de quel pais et de quel lignages ...
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... replied to a minister who said to him that the churchmen caused him to lose many rights and liberties , and that it was a matter of wonder how he permitted it , That he believed it to be so , but that God had bestowed upon him so much ...
... replied to a minister who said to him that the churchmen caused him to lose many rights and liberties , and that it was a matter of wonder how he permitted it , That he believed it to be so , but that God had bestowed upon him so much ...
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... replied with modesty , " Je suis prisonnier du Sultan , il peut faire de moi à son vouloir . " What an astonishing scene of horror and grandeur was that when the Sarassin rebel rushed into his prison after murdering the Sultan , with ...
... replied with modesty , " Je suis prisonnier du Sultan , il peut faire de moi à son vouloir . " What an astonishing scene of horror and grandeur was that when the Sarassin rebel rushed into his prison after murdering the Sultan , with ...
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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.