 | James Mackintosh - 1792 - 398 pages
...enlarged thinker, fertile in reflexions of a different na-< ture. That fyftem of manners which arofe among the Gothic nations of Europe, of which chivalry...formed its character have not, perhaps, been hitherto investigated with the happieft fuccefs. But to confine ourfelves to the fubjedt before us. Chivalry... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...enlarged thinker, fertile in reflections of a different nature. That system of manners which arose among the Gothic nations of Europe, of which chivalry was more properly the effusion than the source, is, without doubt, one of the most peculiar and interesting appearances in... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...enlarged thinker, fertile in reflections of a different nature. That system of manners which arose ning early, Bolus rose, And to the patient s house he goes Upon his pad, Wh effusion than the source, is, without doubt, one of the most peculiar and interesting appearances in... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 pages
...the leaders of the Revolution for the excesses which attend it. ...That system of manners which arose among the Gothic nations of Europe, of which chivalry was more properly the effusion than the source, is without doubt one of most peculiar and interesting appearances in human... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1791 - 608 pages
...we fhall extract : they are in ftyle and fentiment excellent. ' That fyftem of manners which arofe among the gothic nations of Europe, of which chivalry...effufion than the fource, is without doubt one of the rrioft peculiar and interefling appearances in human affairs. The moral caufes which formed its character... | |
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... of one day's excefles committed by a delirious populace. He might thus, perhaps, oppofe fpecious and popular topics to the declamation of Mr. Burke. But the fubject itfelf is, to an enlarged thinker, fertile in reflections of a different nature. That... 