Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould - Page 2

In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
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Decay
Fourteen
Generations
Ice
Twelve
Countless
Depths
Plants
Vegetable
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
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Chalk
Population
Ages
Barter
Furnished
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One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
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Ice
Insight
Superstitions
Transparent
Advantages
Unmistakable
Glacier
Origin
World-Wide
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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Distinctive
Historic
Sanctity
Summary
Deaths
Saints
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The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
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Capacity
Cohesion
Merging
Patriotic
Welsh
Grudges
Feud
Forgetting
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Circumstances
Extravagance
Gentle
Members
Representatives
Comparatively
Junior
Ruin
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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Accepted
Customs
Habitual
Manners
Myth
Ordinary
Relative
Life Experience Wife
Frenchman
Held
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Britain
Exeter
Fortress
Horn
Important People
Occupied
Peninsula
River
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Air
Fresh Air
Iceland
Longing
Scenery
Among
Wild
Climbed
Lodged
Quenched
Wandered
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At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.
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Description
Impetus
Introduction
Orange
Revolution
William
Manufacture
Prohibited
Throne
Wines
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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Committed
Fixed
Added
Further
Hundred Years
Travelled
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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Accusation
Emperor
Estates
Extravagance
Oppression
Crown
Duke
Ferdinand
Frederick
Iii
Imprisoned
Summoned
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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Ascent
Broken
Carpet
Gaps
Mankind
Remains
Resolution
Rugged
Stationary
Steps
Round
Sliding
Smoothly
Step Forward
Unable
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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Blue
Blue Eyes
France
Overflow
Population
Submerged
Conquering
Dominated
Races
Swept
Waves
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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Accustomed
Chalk
Cliffs
Dover
Elsewhere
Rolling
Sea
Alternate
Beds
Bitten
Presents
Shakespeare
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Bears
Cornwall
Resemblance
Shattered
Thrust
Boot
Italy
Leg
Sicily
Stands
Toe
Whereas
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
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Amused
Executing
Locks
Versailles
Well Known
Louis
Assisted
Attached
Mechanical
Projecting
Workshop
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
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Appearance
Charm
Engagement
Garden
Grace
First Appearance
Immediate
Manager
Reached
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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Arms
Noble
Saint
Servant
Thirty
Aside
Burnt
Contents
Laid
Sinners
Uncle
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Commandments
Forbidden
Now And Then
Ten Commandments
Brings
Flock
Fold
His Way
Hurdles
Leaps
Pushes
Runs
Shepherd
Shut
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A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.
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County
Eccentric
Habit
Odd
Residence
Yorkshire
Collected
Concerning
Furnished
Inveterate
Relating
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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Clear
Cold
Glasses
Inquiry
Masquerade
Profane
Sacred
Study
Teaching
Coloured
Determining
Hides
Seek
Medium
Receive
Reveals
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In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
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Creation
Heaven
Angels
Eternally
In The Beginning
Wills
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Dear
Eternal
Fruit
Glorious
Reap
Spouse
Crown
Elect
Holds
Memorials
Precious
Quit
Reward
Saints
Traces
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