The English and Welsh coasts, at least, were familiar to their pilots, and they combined, as was usual in that age, the military with the mercantile character.
Nor shall it be called a game, save perhaps with the chief player, who was not more or less sceptical than most public men with whom he had acquaintance in that age.
I have always thought of him and of Marlborough as the two greatest men of that age.
A Roman farmer might not understand his diction in agriculture; but he made a Roman courtier Understand farming, the farming of that age, and could captivate a lord of Augustus's bedchamber, and tempt him to listen to themes of rusticity.
The experience of old age Is very likely to be balanced by the weaknesses incident to that age.
Torture, which had always been illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1610.
For in that age it had become a point of conscience and of honour with many men of generous natures to sacrifice their country to their religion.
A divine of that age, who was asked by a simple country gentleman what the Arminians held, answered, with as much truth as wit, that they held all the best bishoprics and deaneries in England.
It is impossible to believe that considerations so obvious, and so important, escaped the most profound politician of that age.
Many of our noblest architectural monuments belong to that age.
But it is evident that the champions of Catholicism in that age were no match in controversy for her adversaries.
The attempt to set aside Locke, Newton, and Bacon, as guides of the eighteenth century belongs not to that age but to our own.
The attack of the archbishop, who had fulminated against the great book in an episcopal charge, had served the purpose of an advertisement; such was the wisdom and consistency of the repressive police of that age.
It illustrates also the faith ofthat age in all oracles, its desire to hear all voices, its generous belief that nothing which had ever interested the human mind could wholly lose its vitality.
Here, however, the dramatists of that age stopped.
A generation of politic sovereigns succeeded to the race of warlike ones, just in that age of society when policy became of more importance in their station than military talents.
It should appear that Russia might have derived an early and rapid improvement from her peculiar connection with the church and state of Constantinople, which at that age so justly despised the ignorance of the Latins.
In that age, as well as in the present, the kings of Spain were possessed of the fortress of Ceuta; one of the columns of Hercules, which is divided by a narrow strait from the opposite pillar or point of Europe.
Yet it must not have appeared incredible to the knights of that age.
It appears that people hesitate about taking youngsters as old as these three, and as steeped in vice and ignorance as naturally might be expected in boys and girls of that age.
What man is there to-day who was not desperately afflicted at that age, and who is there among us that has forgotten the experience?
It is our idea to keep up the practice until I am seventy-five, if God permits me to live to that age.
I myself was rich and also educated, and possessed, therefore, all the elements of happiness enjoyed by the most fortunate in that age.
In that age, when money alone commanded all that was agreeable and refined in life, it was enough for a woman to be rich to have suitors; but Edith Bartlett was beautiful and graceful also.
It may be here remarked, that it was impossible that this class of women, very numerous in that age, could bear a character generally respectable.
Elcho, however, was in that age a peaceful nunnery, and the walls with which it was surrounded were the barriers of secluded vestals, not the bulwarks of an armed garrison.
His poems and prose writings are replete with wit and spirit, though bearing evident marks of French influence, which was felt in almost all the poetical productions of that age.
His "Sacred History," for its language and style, is one of the best works of that age.
It is an allegory conceived in the form of a vision, which was the most popular style of poetry at that age.
The monks could read and talk in Latin, of a barbarous sort,--which was the common language of the learned, so far as any in that age could be called learned.
But intercourse with learned men, interest in antiquarian matters, and the passion for elegant Latin correspondence were necessities for the princes of that age.
The literary conditions of that age of great discoveries have often been set forth; no more can here be attempted than to point out a few less-known features of the picture.
The knight read it; and in that age, when astrology was considered a science as unerring as holy prophecies, it would have been little less than infidelity to have doubted the truth of the prediction.
The cures he wrought were deemed so surprising in that age, that he was supposed to have recourse to supernatural aid.
More than anything else it exemplifies the close commixture of theology, politics, and diplomacy in that age, and especially in those two countries.
If a dream of general religious equality had ever floated before him or before any one in that age, he would have felt it to be a dream which would be a reality nowhere until centuries should have passed away.
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