 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors...Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity.'7 Instead of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, and banished... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 482 pages
...spread spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors...Greeks, and banished from the stadium the virgins and the matrons, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 484 pages
...spread spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors of every country were perpetually as- , sociated ; and impartial taste must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games ef classic... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 574 pages
...arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors...tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity 1. Instead of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, and banished from the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...arms spread t similar color and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and pilgrimage; at home, in martial exercise, the...Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic utiquity. Instead of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, and banished from... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the lace of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and pilgrimage — at home, in martial exercise —...tournament, to the Olympic games of classic antiquity. irailuiront paries substantifs corresponilants ; ainsi, to maintain right, an maintien dc la justiee... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 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 pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors of every... 
