The Broad Stone of Honour: The True Sense and Practice of Chivalry : Second Book, Taneredus |
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... to more permanent and perfect enjoyment — that to youthful and generous and
romantic minds , there would be no distance between observing and loving the
spirit and the institutions which belonged to the religion of the Christian chivalry .
... to more permanent and perfect enjoyment — that to youthful and generous and
romantic minds , there would be no distance between observing and loving the
spirit and the institutions which belonged to the religion of the Christian chivalry .
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On examining the memorials of our Christian chivalry it will be interesting to
remark , how the service of God was considered as demanding a perfect and
total devotion of mind and heart , of soul and body ; how that the Catholic faith
was the ...
On examining the memorials of our Christian chivalry it will be interesting to
remark , how the service of God was considered as demanding a perfect and
total devotion of mind and heart , of soul and body ; how that the Catholic faith
was the ...
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... but certainly not the most enlightened estimators of Christianity or human
nature . Nor is it foreign from the original design of the writer of these pages , if he
thus endeavours to dissuade his reader from too hastily adopting a general
opinion ...
... but certainly not the most enlightened estimators of Christianity or human
nature . Nor is it foreign from the original design of the writer of these pages , if he
thus endeavours to dissuade his reader from too hastily adopting a general
opinion ...
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To go back to an earlier age , it is a pity that we have no memorial of the many
Christians who preferred death to ... that one was a paynim and the other a
Christian , intimated in this address what was his notion of con . versing with an
infidel .
To go back to an earlier age , it is a pity that we have no memorial of the many
Christians who preferred death to ... that one was a paynim and the other a
Christian , intimated in this address what was his notion of con . versing with an
infidel .
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This position cannot be better introduced than in the words of the Count de
Maistre , who more , perhaps , than any other writer of this age , had imbibed the
spirit of the Christian chivalry . “ True nobility , ” he says , “ is the natural guardian
of ...
This position cannot be better introduced than in the words of the Count de
Maistre , who more , perhaps , than any other writer of this age , had imbibed the
spirit of the Christian chivalry . “ True nobility , ” he says , “ is the natural guardian
of ...
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Strona 340 - Of men than beasts ; 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.
Strona 200 - 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.
Strona 115 - 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.
Strona 256 - 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...
Strona 180 - 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...
Strona 294 - I passed the sea in great peril, I have desired nothing of you; therefore now 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.
Strona 174 - 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.
Strona 228 - ... 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.
Strona 195 - Fratres, sobrii estote et vigilate : quia adversarius vester diabolus tanquam leo rugiens circuit quaerens quem devoret.
Strona 398 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.