The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 15Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1840 |
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... effect its aim . It was indeed , a rough sport ( for rarely did one pass without loss of life , ) but then silken plays would ill have matched an age of iron . Such was the education of the knights ; such the spirit of chivalry . Within ...
... effect its aim . It was indeed , a rough sport ( for rarely did one pass without loss of life , ) but then silken plays would ill have matched an age of iron . Such was the education of the knights ; such the spirit of chivalry . Within ...
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... effects , as worthy in their design . At the time of the preaching of the first crusade at the Council of Clermont , all Europe was in a state of convulsion . The feudal barons were universally at war , and mutual pillage , sack , and ...
... effects , as worthy in their design . At the time of the preaching of the first crusade at the Council of Clermont , all Europe was in a state of convulsion . The feudal barons were universally at war , and mutual pillage , sack , and ...
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... effect certain purposes , both noble and useful , Chivalry grasped the instruments , and the only instruments , which the age had fashioned to its hands . These instruments were those of war . And what is war ? Simply the shock of ...
... effect certain purposes , both noble and useful , Chivalry grasped the instruments , and the only instruments , which the age had fashioned to its hands . These instruments were those of war . And what is war ? Simply the shock of ...
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... effect of chivalry was to redeem from almost a dead letter to life and vigorous activity , the second great law of the christian statute book ; the law of brotherly love ; the law of sympathy with , and in- terest in , man simply as man ...
... effect of chivalry was to redeem from almost a dead letter to life and vigorous activity , the second great law of the christian statute book ; the law of brotherly love ; the law of sympathy with , and in- terest in , man simply as man ...
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... effect of circumstances on the course of human life . Some streams also become colored by the earth they pass over , or mingle readily with the waters that flow into theirs . But there are a few - and they are always the mightiest and ...
... effect of circumstances on the course of human life . Some streams also become colored by the earth they pass over , or mingle readily with the waters that flow into theirs . But there are a few - and they are always the mightiest and ...
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Page 24 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 265 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 182 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 535 - For if I am obliged to storm, you may depend on such treatment as- is justly due to a murderer. Beware of destroying stores of any kind, or any papers or letters that are in your possession, or hurting one house in town — for, by Heavens! if you do, there shall be no mercy shown you. [Signed,] "GR CLARK.
Page 304 - ... after shadows. The example of one stimulates another ; speculation rises on speculation ; bubble rises on bubble ; every one helps with his breath to swell the windy superstructure, and admires and wonders at the magnitude of the inflation he has contributed to produce. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stockjobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of knighterrant, or rather...
Page 24 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour ; treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundance. To feed my innocent people.
Page 179 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 417 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Page 12 - 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.
Page 92 - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into, nothing too hard for his understanding : this man, indeed, deserves the name of an author : his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.