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He was noble and lordly, and at the same time deeply loyal, exhibiting strong love for his people and his family.
Shimabara was once the domain of the Arima lordly family, which had been Christian ; as a result, many locals were also Christian.
Castles in Europe provided lordly accommodation for their owners and were centres of administration ; in the Levant the need for defence was paramount and was reflected in castle design.
The modern view, proposed notably by Charles Coulson, is that in battlements became an architectural status-symbol much sought after by the socially ambitious, in Coulson's words: " Licences to crenellate were mainly symbolic representations of lordly status: castellation was the architectural expression of noble rank ".
The lordly house of Winterau died out before 12 April 1372, on which day a Wilhelm von Scharpenstein was avouched as Vogt.
Castles in Europe provided lordly accommodation for their owners and acted as centres of administration ; in the Levant the need for defence was paramount and this was reflected in castle design.
It was purely a farming community, and by all indications arose from a lordly estate.
In the late 17th century, through the Ingelheimer family's lordly leadership, fruit growing was brought to Burgholzhausen
The official koku revenue of the Uesugi daimyo was cut in half in 1664, but the clan continued to expend as before, maintaining the same lordly standard of living.
Hohenlinden belonged to the Electorate of Bavaria and was part of the lordly estate of Hofmark Ebersberg of the Order of Malta, which was disbanded in 1808.

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File: Tokushima Castle lordly Front Palace Garden02s3872. jpg | Garden at the Tokushima Castle, dominated by rocks
File: Tokushima Castle lordly Front Palace Garden04s3872. jpg | A bridge at Tokushima castle made of two stones resting on a third stone ( 1592 ).
Perched like a lordly, lavish manor at the juncture of California and Poli streets, it overlooks the old town and the blue Pacific beyond -- a constant reminder of the past.

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With a lordly and generous gesture, the discoverer stood up and beckoned to the closest of his fellows.
But Descartes could not avoid prodding God to set the world in motion with a snap of his lordly fingers ; after that, he had no more use for God.
# Frigg is the first ; she possesses the right lordly dwelling which is called Fensaler.
Jael received him into her tent with apparent hospitality and " gave him milk ... in a lordly dish.
Velázquez then painted the first of many portraits of the young prince and heir to the Spanish throne, Don Baltasar Carlos, looking dignified and lordly even in his childhood, in the dress of a field marshal on his prancing steed.
Family squabbles began about 1250 and under Siegfried ’ s grandsons led to a permanent rift between the lordly houses of Westerburg and Runkel by 1288.
These verse forms were elaborated even more into the skaldic poetic form called the dróttkvætt, meaning " lordly verse ", which added internal rhymes and other forms of assonance that go well beyond the requirements of Germanic alliterative verse.
Of Burgundian origin, the dukes of the petty lordly family from La Roche renewed the ancient city of Plato and Aristotle as a courtly European capital of chivalry.
It combines manifold advantages, situated as it is in the midst of beautiful villages and lordly towns, near to holy places and pleasant hamlets.
He rebuilt Skenfrith between 1219 and 1222 and Grosmont between 1224 and 1226 in stone, adding domestic apartments to both castles, so that they could be used as lordly residences.
Ostheim belonged from the time of its first documentary mention to various lordly domains, before it passed along with the whole Bachgau to the Electorate of Mainz.
Electoral Mainz acquired the lordly rights over Urberach in the Late Middle Ages.
" In the 18th century came gradual modernization of the curricula and reforms in the instruction, which were definitively influenced by the local lordly court in Darmstadt.
It is known as Santiago's bohemian quarter, with new hip restaurants, boutiques, and avant-garde galleries occupying loft spaces and lordly mansions that punctuate tree-lined streets awash with colorful antique homes.
Many of the larger Pelian mansions ( the arkhontiká or " lordly mansions ") have been converted into boutique hotels and hostels.
He returned to the Colony following his schooling in England, lived in lordly estate on his plantation, Westover Plantation, and gathered the most valuable library in the Virginia Colony, numbering some 4000 books.

poet and was
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.
The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.
Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
He was a well-to-do, handsome, and sensitive young poet.
It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).
We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.
The epic language was not entirely the servant of the poet ; ;
If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.
Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.
Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.
760 d. 18 February 814 ) was a Frank who served Charlemagne as a diplomat, abbot, poet and semi-son-in-law.
It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.
Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

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