 Chivalry is only a name for that general Spirit or state of mind, which disposes men to Heroic and Generous actions; and keeps them conversant with all that is Beautiful and Sublime in the Intellectual and Moral world.  A Summary of Modern History - Página 360por Jules Michelet - 1847 - 403 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | English Kalendar, James A. Stothert - 1843 - 698 páginas
...learned French writer observes, ' did not create a new system but it only extended and refined an old.' Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or...beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world. It will be found that, in the absence of conservative principles, this spirit more generally prevails... | |
 | 1843 - 316 páginas
...learned French writer observes, ' did not create a new system but it only extended and refined an old.' Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or...beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world. It will be found that, in the absence of conservative principles, this spirit more generally prevails... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 474 páginas
...entangle our thoughts in a mere verbal discussion, it should be remembered that it had a side of truth aa well as of error — a bright side as well as a dark...moral world." — ' The Broad Stone of Honour, or Ike True Sense and Practice of Chivalry,' by Kenelm Henry Digby, Esq. In referring to this volume,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 páginas
...took up the volume and read aloud a passage, so.cc sentences whereof seem worthy of being quoted. " Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind, which disposes incu to generous and heroic actions; and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime... | |
 | 1851 - 426 páginas
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 | 1851 - 504 páginas
...only accidental attendants upon it, subject to the influence of time, which changes all such things.' Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to generous and heroic actions ; and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1851 - 92 páginas
...word chivalry, and then we shall see our way clearer perhaps." I gave him the book, and he read — " Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind, which disposes men to generous and heroic actions ; and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the... | |
 | Charles Malcolm Kennedy - 1856 - 194 páginas
...imperishable monuments of its happy influence and power2." We may accept Mr Digby's definition of chivalry, " that general spirit or state of mind which disposes...beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world3." As such chivalry must always exist, and its age can never be said to be gone for ever; traces... | |
 | Charles Malcolm Kennedy - 1856 - 202 páginas
...imperishable monuments of its happy influence and power2." We may accept Mr Digby's definition of chivalry, " that general spirit or state of mind which disposes...beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world3." As such chivalry must always exist, and its age can never be said to be gone for ever; traces... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1857 - 444 páginas
...'chivalry,' then, unless we mean vainly to entangle our thoughts in a mere verbal discussion, it ehould be remembered that it had a side of truth as well...Stone of Honour, or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry,1 by Kenelm Henry Digby, Esq. In referring to this volume, I feel that this is one of the... | |
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