The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages: The Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic Knights, and Others : with an Appendix of Other Orders of Knighthood : Legendary, Honorary, and ModernS.P.C.K., 1879 - 360 páginas |
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Página viii
... carried on by the Knights of St. John - Testimony of an eye - witness as to the spirit of the Order - Capture of Damietta - Charges against the Order - The Grand Master visits the courts of Europe - The siege of Acre by Melec Seraf ...
... carried on by the Knights of St. John - Testimony of an eye - witness as to the spirit of the Order - Capture of Damietta - Charges against the Order - The Grand Master visits the courts of Europe - The siege of Acre by Melec Seraf ...
Página xxii
... carried out with self - sacrifice and enthusiasm . It attracted many devoted men , and so grew and spread and flourished . And then , when success had crowned the new scheme , men of all kinds favoured it and men fit and unfit enrolled ...
... carried out with self - sacrifice and enthusiasm . It attracted many devoted men , and so grew and spread and flourished . And then , when success had crowned the new scheme , men of all kinds favoured it and men fit and unfit enrolled ...
Página xxiv
... carry out . " Oh , yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill . ” We read the past , we regard the present , we await the future with this conviction , and gain peace and rest and hope . THE MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS ...
... carry out . " Oh , yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill . ” We read the past , we regard the present , we await the future with this conviction , and gain peace and rest and hope . THE MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS ...
Página 5
... carried on with less ferocity ; mercy to the vanquished and to non - com- batants came to be esteemed as essential to the true Knight as courage and endurance , and courtesy and regard for truth as indispensable as strength of arm , and ...
... carried on with less ferocity ; mercy to the vanquished and to non - com- batants came to be esteemed as essential to the true Knight as courage and endurance , and courtesy and regard for truth as indispensable as strength of arm , and ...
Página 6
... carried to excess , and degenerated into folly and extravagancies , till Cer- vantes covered it with ridicule in his Don Quixote , and , as it is said , brought it to an end . But still it had its place in the history of Euro- pean ...
... carried to excess , and degenerated into folly and extravagancies , till Cer- vantes covered it with ridicule in his Don Quixote , and , as it is said , brought it to an end . But still it had its place in the history of Euro- pean ...
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Acre afterwards arms army attack Bailiff Bajazet battle besieged brave brethren capture castle CHAPTER Charles Christ Christendom Christian church civil Cloth boards command Constantinople cross Crown 8vo Crusade death defence dominions Dragut Duke elected Elmo Emperor enemy England Europe expedition faith fight fleet forces fortifications fortress founded France galleys garrison Grand Master hands Holy Land honour Hospital Hospitallers Illustrations on toned inhabitants instituted island Jerusalem John King Knights of Rhodes Knights of St L'Isle Adam Louis Mahomet Malta Moors Moslem motto noble Order of Calatrava Order of knighthood ORDER of ST Palestine pilgrims Pope Portugal possession princes prisoners Prussia ranks received Rhodes Saladin sent ships Sicily sick siege soldiers Solyman soon Spain succour Sultan Sultan of Egypt sword taken Templars Temple terrible Teutonic Knights Teutonic Order Three full-page Illustrations toned paper town troops Turkish Turks Valette valour vessels victory walls wounded
Pasajes populares
Página 205 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Página 31 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Página xix - We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página xix - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 1 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs...
Página v - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Página 16 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.