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God is the father of spirits, and the constitution of the eternal kingdom rests on the vassalship of love. September 27, 1852.
"I do not understand thy vassalship," the Lady Elois
Among the customs of the ancient Germans, which are noticed by Tacitus, and in which may be discovered the germs of chivalry, are the remarkable deference paid to women, attendance of the aspiring youth on a military superior, out of which vassalship arose, and the formal receiving of arms on reaching manhood. At the outset, knighthood was linked to feudal service: the knights were landholders.
China was still obstinate, insisted upon the vassalship of the Western nation, and was confident in her power to repress the opium trade. The merchants pressed vigorously for the enlargement of their trade with China, which did not seem to be aware of its weakness before a European power.
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