Thomas Bulfinch Quotes

• The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Sunflower, Emblems, Constancy

  Thomas Bulfinch (2013). “Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

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  Literature, Language, Appreciated

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

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  Rude, Romance, Kind

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.384, Booklassic

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• 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.

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  Independent, Land, Class

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.14

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• The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

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  Horse, Chivalry, Trojan Horse

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• 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.

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  Book, Mean, Giving

  Thomas Bulfinch (1855). “The Age of Fable: Or, Beauties of Mythology”, p.4

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• The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

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  Long, Knighthood, Candidates

  Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Years, Iron, Suits Of Armor

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.19

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• 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

  Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

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  Helping, Claims, Mythology

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Country, Easter, Real

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Stories of Gods and Heroes”, p.6, Thomas Bulfinch

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Religious, Fear

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Bulfinch's Mythology”, p.378, Booklassic

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• It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

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  Romance, Century, Ends

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology: The Age of Chivalry”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.196

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