 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1867 - 724 Seiten
...language, and the manners of their French neighbors, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigor and love of adventure. The people thus formed became...world, and appearing in almost every character. They were the foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed, the most lavish in... | |
 | 1868 - 518 Seiten
...Scandinavians in Gaul embraced the creed, the language, and the manners of their French neighbours, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigour...world, and appearing in almost every character. They were the foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed, the most lavish in... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1873 - 564 Seiten
...Scandinavians in Gaul embraced the creed, the language, and the manners of their French neighbours, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigour...world and appearing in almost every character. They were the foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed, the most lavish in... | |
 | 1874 - 512 Seiten
...bravest and most generous of the champions of the Holy Sepulchre.' l ' The Normans/ says Mr. Freeman, ' were the Saracens of Christendom, spreading themselves...the world, and appearing in almost every character . . . None knew better how to hold their own against pope and prelate : the especial children of the... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 240 Seiten
...Christendom as the bravest and most generous of the deliverers of the Holy Sepulchre." " The Normans were the Saracens of Christendom, spreading themselves...world, and appearing in almost every character. They were the foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed, the most lavish in... | |
 | Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 Seiten
...us what tinNormans were. " The foremost apostles alike of French chivalry and of Latin Christianity, spreading themselves over every corner of the world, and appearing in almost every character. Foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed, the most lavish in gifts, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 430 Seiten
...language and the manners of their French neighbors, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigor and love of adventure. The people thus formed became...the foremost apostles alike of French Chivalry and Latin Christianity. . . . To free England he (the Norman) gave a line of tyrants. . . . But to England... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 436 Seiten
...language and the manners of their French neighbors, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigor and love of adventure. The people thus formed became...the foremost apostles alike of French Chivalry and Latin Christianity. . . . To free England he (the Norman) gave a line of tyrants. . . . But to England... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 428 Seiten
...language and the manners of their French neighbors, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigor and love of adventure. The people thus formed became...the foremost apostles alike of French Chivalry and Latin Christianity. . . . To free England he (the Norman) gave a line of tyrants. . . . But to England... | |
 | 1867 - 940 Seiten
...says Mr. Freeman,d " embraced the creed, the language, and the manners of their French neighbours, without losing a whit of their old Scandinavian vigour...world, and appearing in almost every character. They were the foremost in devotion, the most fervent votaries of their adopted creed, the most lavish in... | |
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Scandinavian vigour and love of adventure. The people thus formed became the foremost apostles alike of French chivalry and of Latin Christianity. They were the Saracens of Christendom, spreading themselves over every corner of the world and appearing... 