| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 482 pages
...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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...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 right; 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 pages
...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... | |
| Scotland - 1867 - 816 pages
...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, &c. &c."— Gibbons 'Decline and Fall,'... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...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 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... | |
| Stephen Reynolds Clarke - Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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 right ; 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... | |
| Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...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 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... | |
| Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1845 - 638 pages
...accomplish the duties of his profession, as the champion of God and the ladies. He devoted himself to speak the truth, to maintain the right, to protect...obligations, and to vindicate, in every perilous adventure, bis honour and character. Chivalry, which owed its origin to the feudal system, expired with it. —... | |
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