But if the mediaevals had been convinced that a lion was not courageous, they would have dropped the lion and kept the courage; if the pelican is not charitable, they would say, so much the worse for the pelican.
All that to us is Anachronism was to mediaevals merely Eternity.
In their social system the mediaevals were too much PARTI-PER-PALE, as their heralds would say, too rigidly cut up by fences and quarterings of guild or degree.
The mediaevals were quite capable of boiling him in melted lead, but they would have been quite incapable of despairing of his soul in the modern fashion.
The peculiar dislike felt by the mediaevals for the sea, is so interesting a subject of inquiry, that I have reserved it for separate discussion in another work, in present preparation, "Harbors of England.
But the mediaevals had not arrived at these abstract principles of taste.
They liked purple, on the whole, the best; but there was no sense of cheerfulness or pleasantness in one color, and gloom in another, such as the mediaevals had.
The Greeks and mediaevals honored, but did not imitate, their forefathers; we imitate, but do not honor.
The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least.
Compare the knowledge of mediaevals and moderns in (a) geography, (b) astronomy.
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