 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 intellectual and moral world.  Godefridus - Page 86by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 474 pages
...under the influence of the Christian religion, and hence a widely different definition of the term : " Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or...and sublime in the intellectual and moral world." — ' The Broad Stone of Honour, or Ike True Sense and Practice of Chivalry,' by Kenelm Henry Digby,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...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... | |
 | Jules Michelet - Europe - 1847 - 440 pages
...under the influence of the Christian religion, and hence a widely different definition of the term : " Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or...and sublime in the intellectual and moral world." — ' The Broad Stone of Honour, or the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry,' by Kenelm Henry Digby,... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 504 pages
...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 - Education - 1851 - 92 pages
...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 - Christianity - 1856 - 194 pages
...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 - Christianity - 1856 - 202 pages
...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... | |
 | H D. T - 1858 - 222 pages
...Translation teierved.J PREFACE. CHIVALRY has been described by a well-known and accomplished writer "as only a name for that general spirit or state of mind...and sublime in the intellectual and moral world." It is clearly not in this more extended sense that we use the words when speaking of the " Heroes of chivalry,"... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...any indignity to the poor and lowly. From one who has studied it in its deeds, we learn that it is " that general spirit or state of mind which disposes...beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world."2 How little of this in our Rebel slave-masters! I come back to the postulate with which I began,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...any indignity to the poor and lowly. From one who has studied it in its deeds, we learn that it is " that general spirit or state of mind which disposes...beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world."2 How little of this in our Rebel slave-masters ! I come back to the postulate with which I... | |
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