How To Use Courtier In A Sentence
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In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...
Strange Bedfellows
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Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ever the courtier alert to the slightest imperfections in his outward mien, the Earl is accustomed to checking his physical appearance in the glass.
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Payments were made instead to courtiers to influence the queen's choice.
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He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
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Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers.
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His conception of a restrained aristocratic manliness is as applicable to the potentially hubristic - or tyrannical - prince as it is to the courtier.
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Vast estates that had been managed by monasteries as endowments for religion and charity were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and favorites; and the commons, where the poor man once had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under forms of law, enclosed distributively within the domains of the adjacent landholders.
Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
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He represents the Fiend passing up through the market, and chuckling as he listens to the strange oaths of cobbler, maltman, tailor, courtier, and minstrel.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
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The courtiers, having entered brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.
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All of the Royal Dancers and some of the courtiers would be participating, the courtiers as a kind of untrained, minimally-moving background to the Dancers, all two hundred of them, who were schooled from the time they were five and performed until they were deemed too old to be decorative.
The White Gryphon
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Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the courtiers all had grief and drearihead.
The Nibelungenlied
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Murals of the durbars and processions depict courtiers in their buttoned up coats and white trousers standing in neat rows like stick figures.
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Consider the ceremony of the weighing of the emperor, with all those flamboyantly robed courtiers arranged in strictly hierarchical order around the man-sized scales.
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They were also outsiders in royal courts where courtiers did everything possible to sideline and ostracise them.
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Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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The courtiers joke and idle and cross their legs in the lacquered wood waiting rooms.
Times, Sunday Times
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When his courtiers and attendants had bowed their way out of the room, Valentinian summoned Faustinus into an antechamber.
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Unkindness, especially unkindness coupled with wit, is the greatest asset a courtier can possess.
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Elizabeth, evincing at once his own courtiership and her popularity.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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Royal chairs were built to be so lightweight that they could easily be moved to the side for the more important choreography of courtiers and king.
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Montbrun hastened, with a courtier's smoothness, to recommend the red wine which, though Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find pleasing.
Sharpe's Honour
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Another shows six slaves and the other two show rows of courtiers and visiting envoys, including representatives of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, Sind and Arabia.
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The Prince handed his sceptre back to the courtier and stepped down from his throne.
KARA KUSH
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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has deaccessioned this Portrait of a Courtier by Jan Mostaert after concluding that it was looted by the Nazis.
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In royal households where a whole retinue of courtiers was employed, more and more varied dishes in total, and dishes of higher status, were offered to those of higher rank and standing in the household.
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Until the 1890s, the garden was reserved for the exclusive use of either the monarch or selected courtiers.
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Seldom had the King evinced more gaiety of heart than at this particular period, or appeared to derive greater amusement from the gossipry of the Court and the gallantries of the courtiers; and he no sooner ascertained that Mademoiselle d'Entragues had become the mistress of Bassompierre than he said laughingly to the Duc de Guise:
The Life of Marie de Medicis
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Her attendants and courtiers, with the aid of local tribals, scoured the foothills of Brahmagiri where they found the eternal Varaha spring.
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It has also created the foundation behind which Hanson has been able to create a following that rebelled against the established ‘royal chamber and its courtiers’.
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A bishop and his acolyte attend her, while courtiers in black robes emerge from the gloom on either side of the bed.
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This was certainly good food by Tudor standards but it paled compared to the sumptuous meals served to the more senior courtiers, such as the gentlemen of the privy chamber.
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How would a visitor from the future look to a courtier in Louis XIV's Versailles?
MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel
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Other senior courtiers thought him'not naturally a likeable man '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is there some faded parchment in an archive somewhere which says that courtiers in the 16th Century only discussed important matters while pacing swiftly?
The Sun
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At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool (tabouret or pliant) depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand.
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Workers in gold and ivory, in gems and talismans, in brass and fine linen and purple had done the marvels which those courtier adventurers brought with them over the sea, and to these, from year to year, had been added the treasure of private chests -- necklaces and coronals and hair-loops, bottles and vases of glass coloured with metallic oxides, and patterned aggry-beads, now sometimes found in ancient tombs on the Ashantee coasts.
Romance Island
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Louis believed strongly in the divine right of kings, saying that he was the sun and that his courtiers and France should revolve around him like planets.
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The courtier sat in the corner cowering in fear as a hooded figure with an axe stepped closer.
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In this account, Duwes emphasizes that Mary's servants are courtiers and that Mary's household on the Welsh Marches is a viceregal court.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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She sat serenely in her throne, surveying her courtiers through utterly regal eyes, which hid the heavy pounding of her heart.
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Why should a depiction of a distant queen and her courtiers have been thought suitable for the decoration on a snuff bottle?
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Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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Early on in her illness, he stunned Japan by appearing to condemn senior courtiers for their lack of sympathy for her.
Times, Sunday Times
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She sat back, spine straight, relaxed like a queen receiving courtiers.
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No longer need the ailing woman pass through the smiling derisive rows of courtiers, fearing their eyes, dreading the falling of her rose and catching her breath as she dissembled a vivacity that amused the King.
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The names with which they adorned their maps were a piece of courtiership and a means of currying favour with the great and powerful, just as their espionage, and their supply of illicitly-obtained and flavoured information to Decaen in
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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The courtier and the king stood nearby watching the princess.
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His courtiers have been summoned but these first two hours are taken up with swimming.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pretender was proclaimed in Edinburgh, when the Highland army was on its march to London, and when all the hopes of hollow courtiership and inveterate Jacobitism were turned to the triumph of the ancient dynasty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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There is also the accent of his irresponsible courtiership, the facile and unashamed flattery he paid to such a woman as Princess
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
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What a deal of money did Henry VIII. and Francis I. king of France, spend at that [1719] famous interview? and how many vain courtiers, seeking each to outbrave other, spent themselves, their livelihood and fortunes, and died beggars?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The courtier had, in essence, brought his own demise the moment he drew his sword on his own brother.
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Kings and Gods both wear their hair in beehive topknots and sit cross-legged gazing down from their gaddis under crimson parasols, as the courtiers feast, and dancing girls celebrate their victories over the enemy.
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The archmage was a courtier; Rathar wasn't, or was as little as he could get away with.
Rulers of the Darkness
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The four knights were immediately recognised as royal courtiers and ushered into the Archbishop's private chambers.
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Kevin Kline addressed the question in the imaginary audience of courtiers that would soon surround the platform stage.
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By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
Act V. Scene I. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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There is no doubt that the Emperor and all his arrogant courtiers have decupled their incomes from the British stimulation applied to inferior soils, that but for us never would have been called into culture.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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Commines, an honester writer, though I fear, by the masters whom he pleased, not a much less servile courtier, says that the virtues of Louis XI. preponderated over his vices.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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And here is the edginess of the Elizabethan Court, as Arthur and his relations, like many courtiers, are in and out of the slammer like a problem family on a housing estate.
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QUOTATION: The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.
Quotations
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The same playful mind that can be sensed in Mahendra's plays can be seen in the dynastic sculptures commissioned a little inland from Mamallapuram, at the Pallava capital of Kanchipuram: here we see the ladies of the court riding on elephants under crimson parasols; messengers arrive breathless at halls packed with courtiers; ambassadors from China sue for peace.
India: The Place of Sex
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A courtier quietly slid open the shoji to advise them of Masakazu's arrival.
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She looks like a queen waiting for a courtier to arrive.
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All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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A stained-glass window dating to about 1500 from a cathedral in Moulins, France, joins about 120 objects from the French court in the exhibit "Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France," running through May 30.
Art: A Brilliant Heart of Glass
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The coroner in charge of the inquest is facing a legal challenge to his decision to appoint 12 royal courtiers to the jury
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Page 297 alone manages to refer to Alonso in The Tempest as "Alphonso," describe him as duke of Naples, rather than its king, invent for Gonzalo a nonexistent comparison of the courtiers 'garments seemingly new-dyed by salt water to "players' costumes, "and misread Prospero's account of the witch Sycorax (predictably yet another caricature of Queen Elizabeth) arriving on the island" with child "as meaning she already had a small Caliban trotting by her side.
The One and Only
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“Old!” exclaimed the knight; “now, by the gods and saints, if there be a gallant at the British Court more fancifully considerate, and more considerately fanciful, but quaintly curious, and more curiously quaint, in frequent changes of all rich articles of vesture, becoming one who may be accounted point-device a courtier, I will give you leave to term me a slave and a liar.”
The Monastery
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Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold.
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This time he was permitted to take with him a group of courtiers and a dozen servants - his Mameluke bodyguard, a butler, a cook, three valets, three footmen, an accountant, a pantryman, and a lamp cleaner.
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Sometimes there was a wry little aside to leaven the mix, such as a comment about the unflattering effect of the fashionable ultra-short men’s coat on a middle-aged courtier of ample girth, or the tendency of a two-foot steeple hennin those tall cone-shaped head-dresses worn by great ladies at the time to poke people in the eye.
Daughter of York, by Anne Easter Smith. Book review.
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Most of the courtiers and other members of the entourage rode, while baggage and other goods were carried on packhorses.
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Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Among the gentlemen who were her courtiers there was much talk of the fashionable rake Sir John Oxon, who, having appeared at her birthnight supper, had become madly enamoured of her, and had stayed in the country at Eldershawe Park and laid siege to her with all his forces and with much fervour of feeling besides.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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Courtiers in samite and silk lined the carpet, turning to see this rough-and-tumble gladiator in their midst.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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When Anabaptists in 1575 and Jesuits in 1581 were condemned to death, Foxe wrote vehement letters to Queen Elizabeth and her courtiers, begging reprieves.
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Paulus Jovius in his description of Britain, and Levinus Lemnius, observe as much of this our island, that there was of old no use of [4083] physic amongst us, and but little at this day, except it be for a few nice idle citizens, surfeiting courtiers, and stall-fed gentlemen lubbers.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In order to pull glamour off, you need this Renaissance quality of sprezzatura, which is a term coined by Castiglione in his book, "The Book Of The Courtier.
Virginia Postrel on glamour
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At the Tuileries, meanwhile, courtiers were going about armed and preparing defensive positions.
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The courtier did not seem to notice the sarcasm dripping from her voice, and responded with a warm, hearty laugh.
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I'm heading back to Cornwall tomorrow, where I shall recline in a bejewelled chaise-longue in one of the many glittering salons and wow the courtiers with tales of the mysterious ways of the natives here in London Village.
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The courtiers breathed a sigh of relief.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier.
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Knollys was a prominent courtier and parliamentarian during Elizabeth I's reign.
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It does not help matters that the series--where the meaty head of a drunken king lies uneasy, where plotters are overplotting and courtiers go a-courting in mutters--proceeds in a style that bears all the most punishing hallmarks of close fidelity to its literary source.
Slate Magazine
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Like the king's courtiers, the princesses had to leave a room walking backward in the king's presence.
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Thus it happened that one of the kings of Pares, who possessed a ring with a costly beazle, once went out by way of diversion with some intimate courtiers to the Masalla of Shiraz and ordered his ring to be placed on the dome of Asad, promising to bestow the seal-ring upon any person who could make an arrow pass through it.
The Gulistan of Sa'di
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Mara was there in a flash, bulling courtiers and servants alike out of the way.
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But the advisers, courtiers, and generals that surround the throne are at a loss to determine what it means, much less what to do about it.
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The crowded figures in the royal durbar are not individuated but arranged in a social hierarchy of relative importance with the leading courtiers closest to the throne.
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Now the king had a brother, whom he had imprisoned in that pit of old time, and he had died there; but the folk of the realm deemed him still alive, and when his durance grew long, the courtiers of the king used to talk of this and of the tyranny of their liege Lord, and the bruit spread abroad that the sovran was a tyrant, so they fell upon him one day and slew him.
Arabian nights. English
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But what Raleigh and his courtiers craved as much as glory was publicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is, for instance, no line of papal courtiers waving huge ostrich feather fans (called "flabella"), as before Vatican II.
USATODAY.com - Millions of mourners bid farewell to Pope John Paul II
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Castiglione recounts: "Often 'devices' (imprese), as we now call them, were displayed; in discussing which there was wonderful diversion" (Book of the Courtier, 12).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Henry of Navarre was a victim of bromidrosis; proximity to him was insufferable to his courtiers and mistresses, who said that his odor was like that of carrion.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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This lifestyle demanded that everything should be portable: the belongings of king and courtiers had therefore to be easily dismantled, packed and carried.
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Moreover, more of the courtiers than Anne had begun to notice the king's growing affection for his baseborn son.
This Scepter'd Isle
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_précieuses_, indicate a distinct reaction against merely brutal and ferocious manners, with a standard of "courtiership" in both senses.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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The courtiers and the advisers left no stone unturned to ensure protocol was followed and dignity maintained.
Times, Sunday Times
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The names with which they adorned their maps were a piece of courtiership and a means of currying favour with the great and powerful, just as their espionage, and their supply of illicitly-obtained and flavoured information to Decaen in Mauritius, were essays to advance their own interests by unworthy services.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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The courtiers breathed a sigh of relief.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.
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The Republican criminal class of the current generation has not slithered, cheated, bribed and whored its way to power without the active support and contrivance of the establishment media, which Digby has rightly described as a courtier class.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: “Personnel is Policy:” It’s Time for Regime Change
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To satirize the sycophants among his courtiers, King Canute sarcastically commanded the waves to keep their distance and allowed his own majesty to be wetted by the tides: now we give the name Canute to anyone in authority who foolishly attempts to ward off the inevitable.
Demons and Dictionaries
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Almost certainly some suitors must have continued to press their claims through courtiers and household servants.
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It is not surprising that such high-ranking courtiers ended up on the receiving end, rounding out their incomes with ingratiating tips and gifts.
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The Duchess had never been liked by many courtiers and members of the Royal Household since the day of the engagement.
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My life would be pomp and circumstance, and my friends would be courtiers and other royals.
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Champernon's sister, Joan, married the important Henrician courtier, Sir Anthony Denny.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Many of the courtiers were upset by the princess's resistance to tradition.
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One could argue that this was a price worth paying to end this war only if there was some reasonable assurance that this bit of royal courtierism would persuade the President to end this war.
Corrente
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The courtiers and attendants were left to socialize amongst themselves, and most of the gentlemen found a lady or two to chat amiably with.
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Even the bear, who closes this movement of the play by eating the courtier Antigonus, is at the end of a long winter hunger - ‘They are never curst but when they are hungry.
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In Velázquez, Mr. Bailey perceptively observes, "we detect a man, who, despite being a civil servant, cocooned in his courtier's garb, went on asking piercing questions and creating in his art a radiance of duality and doubt.
A Peaceable Canvas
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All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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As much as I'd like us to dispose ourselves like Sarum-rite groomsmen or grave Spanish courtiers of the seventeenth century, I realize such antiquarianism is not a going concern.
Liturgical Wedding Crashers
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But Yunanian realized that Zaid would call for him in any case, and the guards and the courtiers would have to find him, double-quick.
KARA KUSH
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_courtier_ still hanging on the king and on the power that controlled the king, for _life_ and _liberty_; and careful still not to assert any independence of those same ends, which had always been taken to be his _ends_; it was in this character that he brought out at last the
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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In 1030, the legendary King Canute, who once tried to command the tides of England in mockery of his flattering courtiers, invaded the lands of Olaf in Norway.
The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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The scion of a courtier family with wealthy estates in Buckinghamshire and Yorkshire, he received a gentleman's education at Oxford and the Inns of Court, before embarking on the Grand Tour of Europe.
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Under no despotism has there been such an organised system of tillage for raising a rich crop of vicious courtiership. 11
Representative Government
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This old courtier and rake was physician in ordinary to all the young men in their numerous cardiacal complications.
The Conqueror
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James II's queen and courtiers took profits from the sale of those transported to the West Indies.
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The craze for the pastoral even reached the Court, where queen Marie-Antoinette dressed herself and her courtiers up as shepherds and shepherdesses.
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The Prince handed his sceptre back to the courtier and stepped down from his throne.
KARA KUSH
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Had his wife been of the same pattern, the worthy couple might well have been astonished at the lively capers of their progeny; but we have reason to believe that the frolicksome courtier and poet drew upon a bountiful store of good
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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They're akin to the licence granted the king's fair-haired courtiers in the Middle Ages.
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At the appointed hour when courtiers of Louis XIV were finally to call at the shop to test its wares, Pan returned prematurely from a stroll in the park, his malodor at high mast due to exercise and the sappy influences of spring.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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In front of the two male imperial figures a diminutive courtier or herald holds open the scroll, presumably reading aloud the announcement of the betrothal.
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They are attended by the soulless shades of their most fanatical worshippers, courtiers, and factotums.
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The hall was full of the laughter of the courtiers and the joyous melody of the band.
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A courtier, who saw Othello performed at the Globe Theatre, remarked, that the blackamoor was a brute, and not a man.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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Whatever we think, we are courtiers in an oriental Sultanate, and there is a corps of janissaries, with bowstrings at the ready, at the palace door.
Murdoch 'a megalomaniac twister'
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It is understood that the Queen's courtiers put up strong resistance to his purchase of the lease, because they feared that it would put a strain on Edward's finances.
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At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool (tabouret or pliant) depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand.
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They all sat looking at the board like Belshazzar 's courtiers staring at the wall.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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But Her Majesty was determined to show solidarity with a nation struggling with hardship and called it off after consulting senior courtiers.
The Sun
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A court Christmas would include elaborate 'disguisings', when courtiers dressed up as King Arthur's knights or masked 'strangers' in exotic costume.
Home | Mail Online
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Her dignity became a stilted manner, her social supremacy led her into affectation and sentimental over-refinements; she queened it with her foibles, after the usual fashion of those who allow their courtiers to adore them.
Two Poets
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At the entrance stand the king, his wife, sons and courtiers weighing a young prince in a balance against gems and precious metals.
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Consider, too, that she was in possession of a jewellery collection that included Faberge's finest and one of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklaces, and it is easy to see why courtiers gave up trying to disguise her sybaritic nature.
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On special feasts, the knights would bestow many robes of vair, for which reason courtiers and jugglers from Lombardy and all of Italy were drawn to Florence, where they were welcomed.
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The four knights were immediately recognised as royal courtiers and ushered into the Archbishop's private chambers.
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So while, as the result of a vicious system of kingly and spiritual thraldom, the intellect of Spain was forced away from its legitimate channels of thought and action, under the shadow of the royal prerogative, which survived the genuine power of the older kings, art flourished and bloomed, unsuspected and unpersecuted by the coward jealousy of courtier and monk.
Castilian Days
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All these sects, at that time, enjoyed complete liberty to dogmatize, discourse, and write, whenever the Jewish courtiers, settled at
A Philosophical Dictionary
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At its center was the palace-home to the king, his harem, and hundreds of courtiers.
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His courtiers say he enjoys this one greatly and always reads right to the end.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serve the king!" they may serve the cobbler well enough, some of 'em, for any courtesy they have, I wisse; they have need o 'mending: unrude people they are, your courtiers; here was thrust upon thrust indeed: was it ever so hard to get in before, trow?
In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)
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Gur would stand in the crowd of courtiers, his head bowed, his face blank; upon an imperceptible sign from Don Reba, he would step forward from the courtiers 'ranks and recite ultrapatriotic poems -- which, however, were greeted with nothing but secretly stifled yawns.
Hard to be a god
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Pharaoh's courtiers saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's household.
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The word cherub (cherubim is the Hebrew masculine plural) is a word borrowed from the Assyrian kirubu, from karâbu, "to be near", hence it means near ones, familiars, personal servants, bodyguards, courtiers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The courtiers and the advisers left no stone unturned to ensure protocol was followed and dignity maintained.
Times, Sunday Times
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His last list handed out so many favours to courtiers that it diminished his reputation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is her courtiers who seem not to grasp that the privy purse is filled by the public's increasingly tatty wallet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Senior courtiers went to await the arrival of the train at the capital.
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Deeming it expedient to move away, he became steward in the household of Sir Thomas Arundel, one of the king's courtiers.
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Garman for the nonce was the courtier, the artistic idler, the dilettante in the art of luxurious living; and Payne, conscious of his dirt-smudged overalls, envied him the elegance with which he played the rôle.
The Plunderer
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The Duchess had never been liked by many courtiers and members of the Royal Household since the day of the engagement.
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The courtiers joke and idle and cross their legs in the lacquered wood waiting rooms.
Times, Sunday Times
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De Guiche, upon whose lips a courtier's jest was already fitting, but to whom the word "affianced," addressed by Malicorne with respect to
Ten Years Later
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Partly, it seems to have been growing impatience on the part of senior courtiers close to the Thai throne.
Times, Sunday Times
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If anything, the reign of Henry VII marked as much the triumph of the king's courtiers in politics as of the king himself.
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But the disposition of a courtier is tame and submissive; and Capito seldom presumed to deviate from the sentiments, or at least from the words, of his predecessors; while the bold republican pursued his independent ideas without fear of paradox or innovations.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1600-1609)
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The essential requirement is to remember that Lyly the dramatist is the same man as Lyly the euphuist, and that his audience was always a company of courtiers, with Queen Elizabeth in their midst, infatuated with admiration for the new phraseology and mode of thought known as Euphuism.
The Growth of English Drama
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This cuts out the public, to be sure, but resembles the courtiers in any royal government.
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Why, sir, I find he has addicted himself to courtierism, and to cringing, and to sitting in cabinets, and to making long speeches in the House of Lords; and to all sorts of vices of the same kind, so as nearly to have fallen into prime ministerism.
The King's Highway
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Many of the courtiers were upset by the princess's resistance to tradition.
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History shows that many kings met their tragic ends because they did not pay heed to the advice of faithful courtiers, preferring the honeyed but false words of sycophants.
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The courtier engages in the provocative playfulness exemplified by the participants in the four nights of gamesome conversation at the court of Urbino memorialized by Castiglione; the poet recreates it.
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Now, the old woman sat no more at the door with her distaff -- the lank beggar no longer asked charity in courtier-like phrase; nor on holidays did the peasantry thread with slow grace the mazes of the dance.
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Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lonely Diana decided to set up her own select circle of trusted courtiers, male and female.
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The Persian courtier is constantly on horseback, hunting with his sovereign in weather of all kinds, or accompanying him in journeys from one end of Persia to the other.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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The nawab was not the only courtier to make overtures.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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My master, who was the most prominent courtier to his most gracious Majesty, the Emperor Kao, may he live ten thousand years.
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The privy council originally consisted of senior courtiers who advised the sovereign.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his resistance was doomed to failure as the courtiers' position was confirmed by several royal decrees.
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Some of those allegedly cheated are said to be close friends of Prince Albert - and two royal courtiers were among Fogwell's employees.
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The helpers 1 of courtier Narito's daughter were dressed in brocaded karaginu, which was distinctive and pleasing even at night.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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An uncompromising champion of royal authority, he was sympathetic to victims of its abuse by corrupt courtiers.
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He is good metal in the inside, though rough and unscoured without, and therefore hated of the courtier, that is quite contrary.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Having gained power through this coup d'etat, Antonio then proceeded to 'banish' his brother in such a way as to ensure the death of Prospero and his infant daughter, casting them adrift in an unseaworthy sea vessel with only the supply of food and water provided for them by a kindly old courtier named Gonzalo.
Shakespeare
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Leondard Opdycke notes, "These devices [imprese] so much in vogue during the 16th century in Italy, were the 'inventions' which Giovio (ca. 1480) says 'the great lords and noble cavaliers of our time like to wear on their armour, caparisons and banners, to signify a part of their generous thoughts.' [fig. 4.16] They consisted of a figure or picture, and a motto nearly always in Latin" (Book of the Courtier, 329n40).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Refinance 2nd Mortgage
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His sympathizers and opponents were other cognoscenti: learned monks, bishops, courtiers, and kings.
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Unkindness, especially unkindness coupled with wit, is the greatest asset a courtier can possess.
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I must say this openly: d'Aubigny I liked immediately, a gentleman born and bred, a true courtier like myself.
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The gifts carried by a group of courtiers ‘disappeared’, got deleted, leaving blanks for the bearers to carry.
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To be a courtier, a royal familiaris, was to be a man who might be at any time singled out to levy a tax, to govern a shire, to lead a campaign, even to kill the archbishop of Canterbury.
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French courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV. She was guillotined for crimes against the state by a Revolutionary tribunal.
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Senior courtiers went to await the arrival of the train at the capital.
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It was called _The Field of Cloth of Gold; _ and the courtiers who attended the two sovereigns felt bound to almost rival them in sumptuousness, "insomuch," says the contemporary Martin du
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
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With its glittering population of titled courtiers, it also symbolized a whole social system dominated by a privileged nobility.
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He is good metal in the inside, though rough and unscoured without, and therefore hated of the courtier, that is quite contrary.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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However, instead of laying on some Mills and Boon stylz, cameraman Sebastian Rich says the coital was a quickie after Diana threw herself at him because she was jealous over his affair with a courtier.
A Royal Shag
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But what Raleigh and his courtiers craved as much as glory was publicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although often portrayed as the hallmark of inflated humanist rhetoric,149 the exercise of virtù was believed to cultivate a well-tempered character, enabling prince, courtier, and craftsman to maintain a sapient balance regardless of circumstance.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
