 | William Robertson - 1769 - 442 páginas
...than pompous ; every perfon of noble birth courted that honour ; it was deemed a diftinction fuperior to royalty; and monarchs were proud to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. Its beneficial THIS fingular inftitution, in which valour, gallantry, and religion, were fo ftrangely... | |
 | William Robertson - 1777 - 444 páginas
...pompous ; every perfon of noble birth courted that honour ; it was deemed a diftinctir on fuperior to royalty; and monarchs were proud to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. THIS fingular inftitution, in which valour, I'* 11 j i. • f fL 11i , ' cu gallantry, and religion,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1777 - 530 páginas
...than pompous ; every perfon of noble birth courted that honour ; it was deemed a diftindlion fuperior to royalty ; and monarchs were proud to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. ir. brn«fi- THIS finguLir inftitution, in which valour, gallantry, and religion, were- fo ftrangely... | |
 | Apollonius (of Rhodes) - 1803 - 308 páginas
...large portion of " enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force, as carried •" them to romantic excess. Men were trained to ^' knighthood, by a long previous...proud to receive it, from •*' the hands of private gentlemen."*—It is not the business of this essay, to fully enquire into the causes, which gave birth... | |
 | William Robertson - 1804 - 378 páginas
...a large proportion of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force, as carried them to romantic excess. Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous...to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. Its benefi- THIS singular institution, in which valour, gallantry, and cial effects. 5 were so strangely... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 516 páginas
...a large proportion of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force as carried them to romantic excess. % Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous...to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. THIS singular institution, in which valour, gal- itshenefilantry, and religion, were so strangely blended,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 726 páginas
...it singular energy, and to carry it even to a romantic excess : men were trained to kniglithood by long previous discipline ; they were admitted into...than pompous , every person of noble birth courted the honour; it was deemed a distinction superior to royalty, and monarchs were found to receive it... | |
 | William Robertson - 1810 - 412 páginas
...of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force as carriec them to romantic excess. Men were trained t" knighthood by a long previous discipline ; they were...noble birth courted that honour ; it was deemed a diitinction superior to royalty, and monarchs were proud to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 páginas
...infusing a large proportion of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force as carried them to romantic excess. Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous...to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. This singular institution, in which valour, gallantry, and religion, were so strangely blended, was... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 598 páginas
...a large proportion of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force, as carried them to romantic excess. Men were trained to knighthood by a long previous...to receive it from the hands of private gentlemen. its bcntfi- This singular institution, in which valour, gallantry, '' and religion, were so strangely... | |
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To these were added religion, which mingled itself with every passion and institution during the Middle Ages, and, by infusing a large proportion of enthusiastic zeal, gave them such force as carried them to romantic excess. Men were trained to knighthood... 
