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ARMING A YOUNG KNIGHT


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A Book of Golden Deeds

Of all Times and all Lands
GATHERED AND NARRATED BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE


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Preface
As the most striking lines of poetry are the most
hackneyed, because they have grown to be mon
inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble
deeds that earth can show have e the best known,
and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be
feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to,
may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not
for such that the collection has been made. It is rather
intended as a treasury for young people, where they may
find minuter particulars than their abridged histories
usually afford of the soul-stirring deeds that give life and
glory to the record of events; and where also other like
actions, out of their ordinary course of reading, may be
placed before them, in the trust that example may inspire
the spirit of heroism and self-devotion. For surely it must
be a wholesome contemplation to look on actions, the

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very essence of which is such entire absorption in others
that self is forgotten; the object of which is not to win
promotion, wealth, or ess, but simple duty, mercy,
and lovingkindness. These are the actions wrought,
"hoping for nothing again", but which most surely have
their reward.
The authorities have not been given, as for the most [Page]
part the narratives lie on the surface of history. For the
description of the Colisæum, I have, however, been
indebted to the Abbé Gerbet's Rome Chrétienne; for the
Housewives of Löwenburg, and St. Stephen's Crown, to
Freytag's Sketches of German Life; and for the story of
e the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew's Germany. The
Escape of Attalus is narrated (from Gregory of Tours) in
Thierry's Lettres sur l'Histoire de France; the Russian
officer's