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Acre Albert of Aix Alexius Antioch arms army arrived attack Baldwin banner battle Bernard the Treasurer besieged Bishop body Boemond brother camp chiefs Chivalry Christians command conduct Conrad Constantinople Count of Toulouse courage Cross crusaders death defend dominions Ducange Duke Eddin Edessa emperor enemy Europe followed forces France French Fulcher Godfrey of Bouillon Grand Master Greeks Guibert of Nogent Guillaume Guiart Holy Land honour horses host Hovedon immense infidels James of Vitry Jerusalem Joinville king knighthood knights Latins leaders Louis Matthew Paris means military monarch Moslems multitude Nangis Nicetas noble Normandy Odon de Deuil Palaye Palestine Peter Philip Augustus pilgrims Pope Prince qu'ils Raimond d'Agiles Richard Rigord Robert Robert the Monk Saladin Saracens sent siege soldiers soon spirit sultaun sword Tancred Templars thousand tians tion took town troops Turkish Turks valour Vertot Villehardouin walls whole William of Nangis William of Tyre
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Էջ 225 - Renaissance in the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century...
Էջ 31 - It first taught devotion and reverence to those weak, fair beings, who but in their beauty and their gentleness have no defence. It first raised love above the passions of the brute, and by dignifying woman, made woman worthy of love. It gave purity to enthusiasm, crushed barbarous selfishness, taught the heart to expand like a flower to the sunshine, beautified glory with generosity, and smoothed even the rugged brow of war.
Էջ 70 - He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Էջ 131 - In 1753 he was seized with a violent fever, which brought him to the brink of the grave; and though he did in some measure recover, yet from that time he might be rather said to languish, than to live.
Էջ 68 - Me ; whoever will abandon his house, or his father, or his mother, or his wife, or his children, or his inheritance, for the sake of My name shall be recompensed a hundred-fold, and possess life eternal.
Էջ 92 - I'll pay her off soon." Accordingly she issued invitations for a grand ball and supper, at which both Mrs. Shuttle and Mrs. Hubblebubble were struck dumb at beholding a suit of curtains and a set of chairs exactly of the same pattern with theirs. The shock was terrible, and it is impossible to say what might have been the consequences had not the two ladies all at once thought of uniting in abusing Mrs. Doubletrouble for her extravagance. "I pity poor Mr. Doubletrouble,
Էջ 75 - ... day before. Who shall tell the children and the infirm, that, animated with the same spirit, hastened to the war? Who shall count the old men and the young maids who hurried forward to the fight ? — not with the hope of aiding, but for the crown of martyrdom to be won amid the swords of the infidels. ' You, warriors,' they cried, ' you shall vanquish by the spear and brand ; but let us, at least, conquer Christ by our sufferings.
Էջ 325 - Go back, Sir Thomas, to those who sent you and tell them from me that whatsoever happens they require no aid from me so long as my son is in life. Tell them also that I command them to let the boy win his spurs, for, God willing, the day shall be his, and the honour shall rest with him and those into whose charge I have given him.
Էջ 19 - Chivalry ; for, indeeej, it was more a spirit than an institution ; and the outward forms with which it soon became invested, were only, in truth, the signs by which it was conventionally agreed that those persons who had proved in their initiate they possessed the spirit, should be distinguished from the other classes of society.
Էջ 74 - ... each one set about selling his property, at as low a price as if he had been held in some horrible captivity, and sought to pay his ransom without loss of time.