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Page 112 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 127 - The wild exploits of those romantic knights who sallied forth in quest of adventures, are well known, and have been treated with proper ridicule. The political and permanent effects of the spirit of chivalry have been less observed.
Page 269 - England of his day, whatever its limitations, was seething with important movements as interesting, in slightly different applications, on this side of the Atlantic as well as on the other...
Page 125 - It hath been through all ages ever seen, That, with the praise of arms and chivalry, The prize of beauty still hath joined been ; And that for reason's special privity : For either doth on other much rely ; For he, me seems, most fit the fair to serve, That can her best defend from villany ; And she most fit his service doth deserve, That fairest is, and from her faith will never swerve.
Page 316 - On the 24th he issued his proclamation declaring that " hostilities have been commenced by the United States, in making new conquests upon our territories within the boundaries of Tamaulipas and New Leon. I have not the right to declare war." * The same day General Arista informed General Taylor that he " considered hostilities commenced, and should prosecute them.
Page 159 - against English commerce, by issuing the Berlin Decree, declaring the British islands in a state of blockade, and ordering all ports to be shut against them. The French army penetrated into Poland, and gained an advantage over the Russians, in the hard-fought battle of Pultusk (1806).
Page 132 - Charlemagne affords a solitary restingplace between two long periods of turbulence and ignominy, deriving the advantages of contrast both from...
Page 81 - Caesar soon reached Egypt; but the head of Pompey, which was immediately presented to him, and from which he turned his face in horror, informed him, that he had now nothing to fear from a man who had so lately contended with him for the empire of the world. 10. War was Caesar's element.
Page 69 - Pyr'rhus, importing that for a proper reward he would poison the king. Fabri'cius, indignant at so base a proposal, gave immediate information of it to Pyr'rhus, who, admiring the generosity of his enemy, exclaimed ; " It is easier to turn the sun from his course, than Fabricius from the path of honor :" — and that he might not be outdone in magnanimity, he released all his Roman prisoners without ransom.
Page 123 - Next, therefore, or even equal, to devotion stood gallantry among the principles of knighthood, but all comparison between the two was saved by blending them together. The love of God and the ladies was enjoined as a single duty.