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Page 459 - France, and of other vast kingdoms which depend upon it, our very magnificent, very honoured, sincere, and ancient friend, Louis XV., to whom God grant all success and felicity, having sent to our august court, which is the seat of the caliphate, a letter containing evidences of the most perfect sincerity, and of the most particular affection, candour, and uprightness, and the same letter being destined for our Sublime Port of felicity, which, by the infinite goodness of the incontestably majestic...
Page 348 - 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 425 - En celé terre, u Diex fu mors et vis Et ki la crois d'outre mer ne prendra , A paines mais ira en Paradis : Ki a en soi pitié et ramembrance Au haut Seignor doit querre sa venjance, Et délivrer sa terre et son païs. 2. Tout H mauvais demorront par deçà, Ki n'aiment Dieu, bien, ne honor, ne pris.
Page 295 - J'attrape le bout de l'année: Chaque jour amène son pain. — Eh bien! que gagnez-vous, dites-moi par journée? — Tantôt plus, tantôt moins, le mal est que toujours (Et sans cela nos gains seraient assez honnêtes), Le mal est que dans l'an s'entremêlent des jours Qu'il faut chômer; on nous ruine en fêtes: L'une fait tort à l'autre, et monsieur le curé De quelque nouveau saint charge toujours son prône.
Page 355 - ... 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 34 - Mussulman army, emboldened by the inaction of the Christians, presented itself several times on the plain. Nothing would have been more easy than to attack and conquer it ; but Louis had resolved to act upon the defensive, and to await the arrival of the king of Sicily for beginning the war, — a fatal resolution, which ruined everything : the Sicilian monarch, who had advised this illstarred expedition, was destined to complete, by his delays, the evil he had begun by his counsels. The Mussulmans...
Page 364 - ... our apostolic authority. If the lords of whom they hold, will not, or cannot lend them the money necessary, they shall be allowed to engage their lands or possessions to ecclesiastics, or any other persons. As our predecessor has done, by the authority of the all-powerful God, and by that of the blessed St. Peter, prince of the apostles, we grant absolution and remission of sins, we promise life eternal to all those who shall undertake and terminate the said pilgrimage, or who shall die in the...
Page 458 - High, and by the eminence of the miracles filled with blessings from 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 glorious sultans, the emperor of puissant emperors, the distributor of crowns to the Cosroes, who are seated on thrones...
Page 348 - ... the universe, penetrated the minds of Christians with its mild breath, and wherever it blew, there was no nation, however distant or obscure it might be, that did not send some of its people. This zeal not only animated the provinces bordering on the Mediterranean, but all who had ever even heard of the name of a 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...
Page 413 - It" they were questioned upon the object of their voyage, they answered that they were going to visit the holy places. Although a pilgrimage commenced under such auspices, and stained with all sorts of excesses, must have been an object of scandal rather than of edification, there were people senseless enough to see in it an act of the all-powerful God ; men and women quitted their houses and their lands to join these vagabond troops, believing they pursued the way of salvation ; others furnished...