"Nobilitate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quaedam de meritis ueniens laus parentum. Quod si claritudinem praedicatio facit, illi sint clari necesse est qui praedicantur. Quare splendidum te, si tuam non habes, aliena claritudo non efficit. Quod si quid est in nobilitate bonum, id esse arbitror solum, ut inposita nobilibus necessitudo uideatur ne ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
... sarcastic attack on the existing sciences and on the pretensions of learned men. In it Agrippa denounces the accretions which had grown up around the simple doctrines of Christianity, and wishes for a return to the primitive belief of the early Christian church. He also wrote De Nobilitate et Praecellentia Deminei Sexus, dedicated to Margaret of Burgundy, De Matrimonii Sacramento and other smaller works. An edition of his works was published at Leiden in 1550 and they have been republished several times. See H. Morley, Life of H. C. Agrippa (London, 1856); A. ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... readers of the great estimation in which the hair was held in the North. Only nobles were permitted to wear it long. When a man disgraced himself, a shaving was sure to follow. Penalties were inflicted upon villains or vassals who sported ringlets. See the works of Aurelius Tonsor; Hirsutus de Nobilitate Capillari; Rolandus de Oleo Macassari; Schnurrbart; ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Ignorantiam mentis putoba, &c. sex being more fraile, more | ser. 35. p. 428.] ignorant than that of mens, were | for all that oftentimes more holy, | more deuout than many men. | | Secondly, the Feare of the Lord | is the truest Nobilitie (as | Gerson[r] proues) the noblest | [Note r: Tractat. de Nobilitate, grace that can ennoble and extoll a | part. 2. p. 52. lit. E. Et Greg. man or a woman. Other naturall, | Naz. Orat. 13. tom. I. fol. 352.] ciuill, and meerely morall | excellencies, perfections, and | endowments a woman may haue, nay | (which ...
— The Praise of a Godly Woman • Hannibal Gamon |
