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" Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors of every country were perpetually associated ; and impartial taste must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity *. Instead of the naked spectacles... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 39
by Edward Gibbon - 1806
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Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 1

Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...observed. The asperity of national prejudice wad softened ; and the community of religion and arm* spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprize and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors of every country were perpetually...
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A pocket encyclopædia, or library of general knowledge, Volumes 1-4

Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...observed. . The asperity of national prejudice was softened ; and the community of religion and arma spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprize and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors of every country were perpetually...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 6

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...observed. The asperity of national prejudice was softened ; and the community of religion and arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over...the face of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and С 5 to Tbc toce k-"« **G«thic pilgrimage ; at home, in martial exercise, the warriors of every country...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 5

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
....of national prejudice was softened ; and thl community of religion and arms spread t similar color and generous emulation over the face of Christendom....Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic utiquity. Instead of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, and banished from...
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The English Instructor: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Selected from ...

Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...and the community oi religion and arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the lace of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and pilgrimage...tournament, to the Olympic games of classic antiquity. irailuiront paries substantifs corresponilants ; ainsi, to maintain right, an maintien dc la justiee...
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...minerals in polarized light. ТООВ.ЯАМЕЯТ, and JOUSTS. " Impartial taste," says Gibbon, " must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...spectacles, which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born beauty, from...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 12

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 622 pages
...structure of minerals in polarized light. TOURNAMENT, and JOUSTS. " Impartial taste," says Gibbon, " must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...spectacles, which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born beauty, trom...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 12

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...structure of minerals in polarized light. TOURNAMENT, and JOUSTS. " Impartial taste," says Gibbon, " must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...the naked spectacles, which corrupted the manners ot the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 12

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...structure of minerals in polarized light. TOURNAMENT, and JOUSTS. " Impartial taste," says Gibbon, " must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...spectacles, which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born beauty, from...
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The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the ...

Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...the community of religion and arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face ol Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage,...of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners ol the Greeks, and banished from the stadium the virgins and matrons, the pompoua decoration of the...
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