Jordan claimed that Earl Robert participated because of grievances against King Henry and credits dismissive remarks about the English who were fighting on the king's side to the countess : " The English are great boasters, but poor fighters; they are better at quaffing great tankards and guzzling . " Countess Petronilla accompanied her husband on his military campaign against English troops under the command of the earl of Arundel and Humphrey III de Bohun.
32.
The children include " mouse, " the gentle five-year-old little mother with her brother, her " chickling; " Richard, who cannot imagine that there might exist anything like disinterested kindness and he conceives of every relation between two human beings as a bargain; Adam, the strong and noisy leader of the older boys and a great boaster, the girls who admire him because they are afraid of him.
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Bennett wrote, " I had seen enough of Shah to know that he was no charlatan or idle boaster and that he was intensely serious about the task he had been given . " Wishing to support Shah's work, Bennett decided in 1965, after agonising for a long time and discussing the matter with the council and members of his Institute, to give the Coombe Springs property to Shah, who had insisted that any such gift must be made with no strings attached.
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The Gemara explained that the word " attend " (, " hasket " ) in teaches that students should form groups ( " aso kitot " ) to study the Torah, as one can acquire knowledge of the Torah only in association with others, and this is in accord with what Rabbi Jose ben Hanina said when he interpreted the words of " A sword is upon the boasters (, " baddim " ) and they shall become fools, " to mean that a sword is upon the scholars who sit separately ( " bad bebad " ) to study the Torah.
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It so " " happened that a stage was erected and sitting on his horse he " " stayed long enough to see a man throw two or three men who had " " mounted the stage against him, till all were intimidated from " " entering the list; the conqueror & . triumphed on the stage with " " so much arrogance that my grandfather was tempted to humble " " him; therefore he got off his horse, mounted the stage, threw the " " boaster on his back and having humbled the boaster he " " immediately took horse and left them ."
36.
It so " " happened that a stage was erected and sitting on his horse he " " stayed long enough to see a man throw two or three men who had " " mounted the stage against him, till all were intimidated from " " entering the list; the conqueror & . triumphed on the stage with " " so much arrogance that my grandfather was tempted to humble " " him; therefore he got off his horse, mounted the stage, threw the " " boaster on his back and having humbled the boaster he " " immediately took horse and left them ."
37.
He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a multitude of tyrants; to the loiterer, who makes appointments which he never keeps; to the consulter, who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances; to the usurer, who compares the different funds; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking ."
