| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...guardians of his oath. As the champion of God and the ladies (I blush to unite such discordant names), he devoted himself to speak the truth; to maintain the...right; to protect the distressed; to practise courtesy, a virtue less familiar to the ancients; to pursue the infidels; to despise the allurements of ease... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 482 páginas
...guardians of his oath. As the champion of God and the kdies . (I blush to unite such discordant names), he devoted himself to speak the truth ; to maintain the right ; to protect the distressed ; to practise fourtesy, a virtue less familiar to the ancients ; to pursue the infidels ; to despise the allurements... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 962 páginas
...public opinion, were the inviolable guardians of his oath. As the champion of God and the ladies, he devoted himself to speak the truth; to maintain the...to protect the distressed ; to practise courtesy, a. virtue less familial; to the infidels ; to despise the allurements of ease and safety ; and to vindicate... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 páginas
...inviolable guardians of his oath. As the champion of God and the ladies, he devoted himself to speak <h~ truth; to maintain the right; to protect the distressed ; to practise courtesy, a virtue less familiar to the infidels ; to despise the allurements of ease and safety ; and to vindicate... | |
| 1867 - 816 páginas
...of Honour.' t " As the champion of God and the ladies (I blush to unite such discordant names), he devoted himself to speak the truth ; to maintain the...to protect the distressed ; to practise courtesy, a virtue less familiar to the ancients ; to pursue the infidels, &c. &c."— Gibbons 'Decline and Fall,'... | |
| 1823 - 878 páginas
...public opinion were the inviolable guardians of his oath. As the champion of God and the ladies, he devoted himself to speak the truth ; to maintain the...to protect the distressed ; to practise courtesy, a virtue less familiar to the ancients ; to pursue the infidels ; to despise the allurements of ease... | |
| Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 494 páginas
...and a solemn oath, by which the aspirant professed himself the champion of God and of the ladies, and devoted himself to speak the truth, to maintain the...right, to protect the distressed, to practise courtesy, and to pursue the infidels.* F. — A strange mixture; of honour, fanaticism, and impiety, from which... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 páginas
...public opinion, were the inviolable guardians of his oath. As the .champion of God and the ladies, be devoted himself to speak the truth ; to maintain the...to protect the distressed ; to practise courtesy, a virtue less familiar to the indents; to pursue the infidels; to despise the allurements of ease and... | |
| Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 páginas
...profession, as the champion of God and the ladies. He devoted himself to speak the truth, to mainto vindicate, in every perilous adventure, his honour...expired with it. — Robertson ; Gibbon. CHIVALRY, COURT or. It was commonly after the lie-direct had been given, that combatí took place in the court of chivalry.... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1843 - 914 páginas
...public opinion, were the inviolable guardians of his oath. As the champion of God and the ladies, he devoted himself to speak the truth ; to maintain the...to protect the distressed ; to practise courtesy, a virtue less familiar to the infidels ; to despise the allurements of ease and safety ; and to vindicate... | |
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