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... third part of the countries conquered was left to the original owners , while the remaining two - thirds were appropriated by the conquerors to their own use . These two - thirds were distributed 4 [ January , Chivalry and the Crusades .
... third part of the countries conquered was left to the original owners , while the remaining two - thirds were appropriated by the conquerors to their own use . These two - thirds were distributed 4 [ January , Chivalry and the Crusades .
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... original inhabitants , occupying the remaining third of the soil , bore generally the name of serfs , or bondmen . They carried on almost the whole agriculture of the country , and sustained , too , the entire burden of taxation . The ...
... original inhabitants , occupying the remaining third of the soil , bore generally the name of serfs , or bondmen . They carried on almost the whole agriculture of the country , and sustained , too , the entire burden of taxation . The ...
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... original conquered inhabitants , should occupy a most preca- rious position ; since , attached to none of the great barons , they were exposed to be harassed and pillaged by all . At such a crisis it was , and out of the bosom of such ...
... original conquered inhabitants , should occupy a most preca- rious position ; since , attached to none of the great barons , they were exposed to be harassed and pillaged by all . At such a crisis it was , and out of the bosom of such ...
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... original inspiration . Princes naturally coveted the aid of a body so potent as the knighthood , and to secure it , proposed external honors and motives , wholly at variance with the primitive spirit of chivalry . Thus metamorphosed ...
... original inspiration . Princes naturally coveted the aid of a body so potent as the knighthood , and to secure it , proposed external honors and motives , wholly at variance with the primitive spirit of chivalry . Thus metamorphosed ...
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... original simplicity , passes , by a succession of intonations admirably adapted to each other , from in- fantile grace to warlike rudeness ; from rural melancholy , to gloomy rage ; from heart - rending grief , to poetic phrenzy ...
... original simplicity , passes , by a succession of intonations admirably adapted to each other , from in- fantile grace to warlike rudeness ; from rural melancholy , to gloomy rage ; from heart - rending grief , to poetic phrenzy ...
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Seite 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Seite 20 - 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.
Seite 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Seite 176 - 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...
Seite 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Seite 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. 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!
Seite 16 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 20 - 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 foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Seite 407 - 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...
Seite 10 - 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.