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... offered to the English reader is an attempt to exhibit that part of M. Sismondi's narrative , with only so much of the general history as may serve for its connex- ion and illustration . Although , therefore , it is only an extract from ...
... offered to the English reader is an attempt to exhibit that part of M. Sismondi's narrative , with only so much of the general history as may serve for its connex- ion and illustration . Although , therefore , it is only an extract from ...
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... offered to us by its modern advocates , and especially by that respectable body the Eng- lish catholics . It becomes , therefore , a proper , and even a necessary , subject of enquiry , whether these are the true interpreters of the ...
... offered to us by its modern advocates , and especially by that respectable body the Eng- lish catholics . It becomes , therefore , a proper , and even a necessary , subject of enquiry , whether these are the true interpreters of the ...
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... offered to purge the land of these pollutions , they became such advocates of plunder , rapine , fire , sword , blasphemy , and sedition , as not only to make common cause with their subjects , but to endure in their defence every ...
... offered to purge the land of these pollutions , they became such advocates of plunder , rapine , fire , sword , blasphemy , and sedition , as not only to make common cause with their subjects , but to endure in their defence every ...
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... offered to those who should take the cross against the Provençals , the utmost extent of in- dulgence which his predecessors had ever grant- ed to those who laboured for the deliverance of the holy land . As soon as these new Crusaders ...
... offered to those who should take the cross against the Provençals , the utmost extent of in- dulgence which his predecessors had ever grant- ed to those who laboured for the deliverance of the holy land . As soon as these new Crusaders ...
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... offered them , and so much the more , that far from regarding the return they were called upon to make , as painful or dangerous , they would willingly have under- taken it for the pleasure alone of doing it . War was their passion ...
... offered them , and so much the more , that far from regarding the return they were called upon to make , as painful or dangerous , they would willingly have under- taken it for the pleasure alone of doing it . War was their passion ...
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Page xxi - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Page xxi - Therefore watch, and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Page xxi - Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Page xxi - Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Page 75 - Resistance was impossible; ftnd the only care of Simon de Montfort was to prevent the crusaders from instantly falling upon the inhabitants, and to beseech them rather to make prisoners. that the^ priests of the living God might not be deprived of their promised joys.
Page 156 - ... affairs ; and feeling some remorse at the manner in which he had amassed his treasures, he appropriated a part of them to the express purpose of repaying, after his death, those persons whose money he had unjustly taken in his lifetime. He died July 14, 1223, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, and the forty-fourth of his reign. By his first wife, Isabella of Hainault, he had only one child — Louis, who succeeded him. By Maria of Dalmatia he had a son ana a daughter.
Page 6 - We cannot, therefore, be astonished if they have represented them to us with all those characters which might render them the most monstrous, mingled with all the fables which would serve to irritate the minds of the people against those who professed them.
Page 75 - The count,, seeing that this would produce great delay, ordered the rest to be massacred ; and the pilgrims, receiving the order with the greatest avidity, very soon massacred them all upon the spot.
Page 28 - We counsel you, with the apostle Paul, to employ guile with regard to this Count, for in this case it ought to be called prudence. We must attack separately those who are separated from unity : leave for a time the count of Thoulouse, employing toward him a wise dissimulation, that the other heretics may be the more easily defeated, and that afterwards we may crush him when he shall be left alone...
Page 74 - Lavaur, who could descend into it by subterranean passages, cleared away each night all that had been thrown in during the day. At last Montfort succeeded in filling the mines with flame and smoke, and thereby prevented the inhabitants from passing into them. The ditches were then speedily filled ; the cat was pushed to the foot of the wall; and its terrible paw began to open and enlarge the breach. On the day of the finding of the holy cross, the 3rd of May, 1211, Montfort judged the breach to be...