Thomas Bulfinch famous quotes

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The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Sunflower #Emblems #Constancy
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Allies #Literature #Virtue
The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Horse #Chivalry
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Long #Knighthood
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Independent #Land #Class
Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Years #Iron #Use
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Boys #Men #Knights
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Literature #Language #Appreciated
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Country #Easter #Real
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Country #Government #Europe
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Rude #Romance #Kind
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Loyalty #Religious #Ambition
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Helping #Claims #Mythology
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Romance #Century #Ends
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Book #Mean #Giving
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
-- Thomas Bulfinch

#Years #Islands #Withdrawal

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