The History of the Crusades: For the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, Volumen2

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821

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Página 263 - They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
Página 193 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 263 - The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.
Página 223 - The lawfulness and justice of the holy wars have been much disputed; but perhaps there is a principle on which the question may be easily determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans, to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the...
Página 2 - ... that I have seen, was undermined and blown up with gunpowder. The stone thereof was employed in building of the Lord Protector's house at the Strand.
Página 63 - At this time the spring-tide of their mirth so drowned their souls, that the Turks coming in upon them, cut every one of their throats, to the number of twenty thousand : and quickly they were stabbed with the sword that were cup-shot before. A day which the Dutch...
Página 263 - If captive wight attempt the tuneful strain, His voice, belike, full dolefully will sound ; Yet, to the sad, 'tis comfort to complain. Friends have I store, and promises abound. Shame on the niggards ! Since these winters twain, Unransomed, still I bear a tyrant's chain.
Página 5 - Pagans. Pope Urban III. died about this period ; and his death, like every direful event of the time, was attributed to grief at the intelligence of the Saracenian victories. William, Archbishop of Tyre, our great guide in history, was one of the messengers of the news ; and his friend, Gregory VIII., successor of Urban, not only endeavoured to deprecate the wrath of heaven, by ordaining fasting and prayer throughout Christendom, but issued a Bull for a new Crusade, with the usual privileges to the...

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