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• The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
• Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm…
• It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
• If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station…
• For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
• Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious…
• The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
• The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
• ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of…
• We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and…
• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
• The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the…

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