 | English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...the crusades. So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a •pace, as in the three years of the first expedition. We should be warranted bycontemporary writers in stating the loss of the Christians alone during this period at nearly a million:... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 376 pages
...drained to the lees the cup of misery." Of the first, he says, " So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space as in the three first years of this enterprize ; " and of the last, " that such calamities now fell upon this devoted... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...they plundered all that came in their way. " So many crimes and so much misery," says Mr Hallam, " have seldom been accumulated in so short a space, as in the three years of the first expedition ;" and another historian says, that a " fresh supply of German and Italian vagabonds," received on... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...that came in their way. " So many crimes and > ' much misery," says Mr Hallam, " have seldom been1 accumulated in so short a space, as in the three years of the first expedition ;" and another historian says, tlut a " fresh supply of German and Italian vagabonds'1 received on... | |
 | Europe - Europe - 1847 - 202 pages
...of the crusades were temporary ; its advantages were permanent. " So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space as in the three years of the first expedition ;" and throughout the whole duration of the enterprise, there was abundant sin and suffering ; but... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1856 - 532 pages
...undertakings have been more branded by its disapprobation than the crusades. So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space as...least computation it must have exceeded half that number.4 To engage in the crusade, and to perish in it, were almost synonymous. Few of those myriads... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...had plundered all that came in their way. á So many crimes and so much misery,' says Mr. Hallam, á have seldom been accumulated in so short a space, as in the three years of the first expedition ;' and another historian says that a 4 fresh supply of German and Italian vagabonds,' received on the... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...their way. ' So many crimes tad so much misery,' says Mr. Hallam, ' have seldom been accumulated in ao short a space, as in the three years of the first expedition ;' and another historian says that a ' fresh supply of German and Italian vagabonds,' recwred on the... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 824 pages
...they plundered all that came in their way. 4 So many crimes and so much misery,' says Mr Hallam, * have seldom been accumulated in so short a space, as in the three years of the first expedition ; ' and another historian says, that a 'fresh supply of German and Italian vagabonds,' received on... | |
 | 1858 - 782 pages
...meet enemies of flesh and hlood, and recover an empty sepulchre." " So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space as in the three years of the first crusade : and it is computed that no less than one million persons perished among the Palmers." Nor... | |
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But if it were lawful to interpret the will of Providence by events, few undertakings have been more branded by its disapprobation than the crusades. So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space, as in the three years... 
