The Broad Stone of Honour: The True Sense and Practice of Chivalry : Second Book, TaneredusSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1828 |
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... Count Richard , who had built the monastery , on his knees , saying , as indicated by a scroll in Carlovingian letters , Christe , rei miserere mei , medicina reorum . The history of the Counts of Champagne furnishes an astonishing ...
... Count Richard , who had built the monastery , on his knees , saying , as indicated by a scroll in Carlovingian letters , Christe , rei miserere mei , medicina reorum . The history of the Counts of Champagne furnishes an astonishing ...
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... Count of Champagne , who likewise governed his court by advice of St. Bernard , which became re- markable for modest and temperate manners ; and from this epoch , says the historian , " he no longer took up arms as readily as he used to ...
... Count of Champagne , who likewise governed his court by advice of St. Bernard , which became re- markable for modest and temperate manners ; and from this epoch , says the historian , " he no longer took up arms as readily as he used to ...
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... count of West- phalia , retired from the world , and became a monk under St. Norbert . Thibaud , Count of Champagne wished to follow his example , but St. Norbert represented to him that he could be of more use with his vast possessions ...
... count of West- phalia , retired from the world , and became a monk under St. Norbert . Thibaud , Count of Champagne wished to follow his example , but St. Norbert represented to him that he could be of more use with his vast possessions ...
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... count of Champagne , besides building many churches , and enrich- ing many religious houses , founded thirteen hospitals for the poor . A poor knight once begging him in the name of God to give him sufficient to get his two daughters ...
... count of Champagne , besides building many churches , and enrich- ing many religious houses , founded thirteen hospitals for the poor . A poor knight once begging him in the name of God to give him sufficient to get his two daughters ...
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... Count of Blois and Champagne , but he also succeeded in reconciling Thibaud with Raoul Count of Vermandois . When the quarrel between Hum- bert , Seigneur de Rougemont , and John de Blaisy , who had imprisoned him , which had divided ...
... Count of Blois and Champagne , but he also succeeded in reconciling Thibaud with Raoul Count of Vermandois . When the quarrel between Hum- bert , Seigneur de Rougemont , and John de Blaisy , who had imprisoned him , which had divided ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 195 - Fratres, sobrii estote et vigilate : quia adversarius vester diabolus tanquam leo rugiens circuit quaerens quem devoret.
Page 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.