STANLEY LANE-POOLE Growth and Decadence of Chivalry (10th to 15th Century)

[Footnote 10: See Growth and Decadence of Chivalry.]

But, on the whole, the history of the Braganza rule was one of steady decadence, until the second half of the nineteenth century found the country one of the most backward in Europe.

With his experience and decadence came, necessarily, an expertness of judgment as to the quality of that which he drank.

"AND FAIR, FIERCE WOMEN" One day a woman that I know came face to face with heroic beauty, that highest beauty which Blake says changes least from youth to age, a beauty which has been fading out of the arts, since that decadence we call progress, set voluptuous beauty in its place.

I have been uneasily conscious of this sneaking sin in my own soul, as I have read article after article in the English newspapers and magazines on the "decadence of the home spirit in English family life, as seen in the large towns and the metropolis."

There is a close likeness between the doctor's high-sounding list of remote symptoms, which he is treating as primary diseases, and the hue and outcry about the decadence of the home spirit, the prevalence of excessive and improper amusements, club-houses, billiard-rooms, theatres, and so forth, which are "the banes of homes.

I would also refer my readers to my "Old Roman World," to Sismondi's Fall of the Roman Empire, and to Montesquieu's treatise on the Decadence of the Romans.

I do not know whether secular society is responsible for the decadence of religion, or the decadence of religion is responsible for the failure of secular society, nor does it particularly matter.

I do not know whether secular society is responsible for the decadence of religion, or the decadence of religion is responsible for the failure of secular society, nor does it particularly matter.

On every handwith a thrill of intensest joy, I say it!is to be seen, if not yet commencing civilisation, then progress, progresswide as the worldtoward it: only hereat the heartis there decadence, fatty degeneration.

Not only was he the first Medici poet but the first of the family to marry not for love but for policy, and that too was a sign of decadence.

Never was such a decadence.

Old Sutton in his decadence had let most of his arable land run to waste, and Anne's job was to make good soil again out of bad.

His chief fame rests in the fact that he was father of Lucan, the poet of the decadence or declining literature of Rome.

This age of countless oratorical masters was emphatically the period of decadence and decay.

Drusus was probably one of those men whom an aristocracy in its decadence not rarely produces.

[Footnote 1: Montesquieu, Persian Letters, 1721; Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and of their Decadence, 1734; Spirit of Laws, 1748.]

The chief mistake which we have made is that, after the year 1889, when we roused ourselves to vote the Brandenburg type of ship, we sank back until 1897 into a period of decadence, while complete lack of system prevailed in all matters concerning the fleet.

If, further, the political rivalry with the great and ambitious republic in America be removed by an Arbitration Treaty, this circumstance might easily become the boundary-stone where the roads to progress and to decadence divide, in spite of all sports which develop physique.

He would willingly have gone back to the days of the Roman decadence, when the love affairs of the powerful became matters of national adoration.

Decadence, by Maxim Gorky, pseud. of Aleksiei Maksimovich Pieshkov.

The puritan warrior was at the same time an ardent patriot: he had at heart the greatness of France as much as he had his personal creed; the reverses of Francis I. and the preponderance of Spain in Europe oppressed his spirit with a sense of national decadence, from which he wanted France to lift herself up again.

He used to say that it was the surest sign of decadence to think much about the past.

An air of placid decadence hangs about its old-fashioned streets, and few would guess that here was once the capital of the Somersaetas, the Saxon tribe from which Somerset derives its name.