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The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
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Constancy
Emblems
Sunflower
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The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.
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Chivalry
Horse
French
Derived
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The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
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Chivalry
Horse
Trojan Horse
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The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
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Kind
Romance
Rude
Appear
Earliest
Romances
Verse
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The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
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Candidates
Knighthood
Long
Arduous
Preparatory
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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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Century
Ends
Prose
Romance
Appear
Began
Till
Romances
Toward
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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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Knowledge
Appreciated
Elegant
Language
Literature
Mythology
Understood
Cannot
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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.
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Happiness
Allies
Literature
Mythology
Promoters
Virtue
Handmaid
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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.
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Men
Arms
Boys
Knights
Privilege
Servant
Young
Young Man
Man Young Man Young
Admitted
Boy
Applied
Bearing
Meant
Man Young Young Man
Particularly
Word
Originally
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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.
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Britain
Invasion
Islands
Julius
Withdrawal
Years
Caesar
Island
Held
Hundred Years
Till
Romans
Voluntary
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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.
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Government
Christ
Country
Decline
Destitute
Europe
Centuries
Northern
Roman
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It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
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Boast
British
Cornwall
Purity
Wales
Flourishes
Stock
Therefore
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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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Easter
Coast
Country
East
Real
South
People See Country
People See Real
Ages
Greeks
Mediterranean
Near
Real People
Thus
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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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Claims
Helping
Mythology
Useful
Claim
Helps
Possessions
Raise
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Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
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Covered
Leather
Secure
Substance
Generally
Hoop
Metal
Similar
Surrounded
Sword
Wood
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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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Knowledge
Book
Charm
Giving
Impart
Mean
Mythology
Relaxation
Study
Teach
Branch
Thus
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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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Adapted
Armor
Iron
Mail
Suits Of Armor
Years
Consisting
Different Parts
Gradually
Solid
Till
Parts
Plate
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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
Fear
Ambition
Awe
Influence
Priesthood
Religious
Sanctity
Attended
Endowed
Object
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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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Class
Independent
Land
Owners
Portions
Protection
Classes
Composed
Neighbors
Voluntarily
Whose
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