Shields were generally made of wood, cov... by Thomas Bulfinch

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Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

- Thomas Bulfinch

Other quotes by Thomas Bulfinch

Power First

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

- Thomas Bulfinch

Society

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

- Thomas Bulfinch

Power Government

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

- Thomas Bulfinch

Knowledge

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

- Thomas Bulfinch

People

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

- Thomas Bulfinch

Happiness

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

- Thomas Bulfinch

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