The History of the Crusades, Volume 3George Routledge and Sons, 1881 - Crusades |
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Page 367 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 356 - From our achievements, though performed at height, The pith and marrow of our attribute. So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As in their birth (wherein they are not guilty...
Page 38 - At five leagues' distance, towards the south-east, a little beyond the gulf and the lake of the Gullet, arose a city-, called in ancient times Tynis • or Tunissa,* of which Scipio made himself master before he attacked Carthage. Tunis had thriven by the fall of other cities, and in the thirteenth century she vied in wealth and population with the most flourishing cities of Africa. It contained ten thousand houses, and had three extensive suburbs ; the spoils of nations and the produce of an immense...
Page 363 - ... Christian faith, might in the present battle break the strength of the Saracens and of the devil and extend the kingdom of the church of Christ from sea to sea, over the whole world. There was no delay ; God was present when we cried for His aid, and...
Page 488 - ... of which proceeds from the divine assistance. " I, who by the excellence of the infinite favours of the Most High, and by the eminence of the miracles filled with benediction of the chief of the prophets (to whom be the most ample salutations, as well as to his family and his companions), am the Sultan of the glorious Sultans ; the Emperor of the powerful Emperors ; the distributor of crowns to the...
Page 356 - Christian in the most remote isles, and among barbarous nations. Then the Welshman abandoned his forests and neglected his hunting ; the Scotchman deserted the fleas with which he is so familiar ; the Dane ceased to swallow his intoxicating draughts ; and the Norican turned his back upon his raw fish.* The fields were left by the cultivators, and the houses by their inhabitants ; all the cities were deserted.
Page 36 - ... public morals, to deliver France from corrupt judges, and to render to everybody, particularly the poor, prompt and perfect justice, so that He who judges the judgments of men might have nothing to reproach him with. Such were the last farewells that Louis took of France. The fleet set sail on the 4th of July, 1270, and in a few days arrived in the road of Cagliari. Here the council of the counts and barons was assembled in the King's vessel, to deliberate upon the plan of the crusade. Those...
Page 298 - Beware of meriting the reproaches of the brave." As the count of Blois returned to Europe before the taking of Jerusalem, his wife made him. blush at his desertion, and forced him to return to Palestine, where he fought bravely, and found a glorious death. Thus the spirit and the sentiments of chivalry gave birth to prodigies equally with the most ardent patriotism of ancient Lacedaemon; and these prodigies appeared so simple, so natural, that the chroniclers only repeat them in passing, and without...
Page 383 - Whether they perish there, or whether they return, let them know that, by the mercy of the all-powerful God, and by the authority of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own...
Page 383 - We have also commanded that their wives and children, their property, and possessions, shall be under the protection of the holy church, of ourselves, of the archbishops, bishops and other prelates of the church of God.