"The first writer who disclaimed a belief in the existence of the Phoenix, was Sir Thomas Browne, in his “Vulgar Error…"

"... those refinements of civility which formed what was in that age called courtesy."

"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our st…"

"The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupying the middle of it, the central poin…"

"What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have …"

"He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them."

"The service of his mistress was the glory and occupation of a knight, and her smiles, bestowed at once by affection a…"

"Alas! for shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! but it is an old saw, a good man i…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"