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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... hundred years ago , were nailed , For our advantage , on the bitter Cross . " SHAKESPEARE . In order to understand in any degree the meaning and object of the Crusades which drew so many of the best and noblest of Europe to fight , to ...
... hundred years ago , were nailed , For our advantage , on the bitter Cross . " SHAKESPEARE . In order to understand in any degree the meaning and object of the Crusades which drew so many of the best and noblest of Europe to fight , to ...
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... hundred and twenty flat- bottomed vessels , or palanders , for the horses ; two hundred and forty transports filled with men and arms ; seventy store - ships laden with provisions ; and fifty stout galleys , well prepared for the en ...
... hundred and twenty flat- bottomed vessels , or palanders , for the horses ; two hundred and forty transports filled with men and arms ; seventy store - ships laden with provisions ; and fifty stout galleys , well prepared for the en ...
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... hundred Hospitallers , and as many Templars . The contest immediately began , and was continued without intermission , and with terrible slaughter . A deep ditch , filled with water , proved the greatest difficulty in the way of the ...
... hundred Hospitallers , and as many Templars . The contest immediately began , and was continued without intermission , and with terrible slaughter . A deep ditch , filled with water , proved the greatest difficulty in the way of the ...
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... the wonderful successes which , for four hundred years , attended the arms of the Order , and rendered its flag paramount in the Mediterranean . The successes of the Order upon the sea soon roused 52 THE MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
... the wonderful successes which , for four hundred years , attended the arms of the Order , and rendered its flag paramount in the Mediterranean . The successes of the Order upon the sea soon roused 52 THE MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
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... hundred pounds weight ; and when all his preparations were completed , Mahomet threw aside all the pretences with which he had endeavoured to conceal his inten- tions , and , in 1453 , he marched upon Constantinople and commenced the ...
... hundred pounds weight ; and when all his preparations were completed , Mahomet threw aside all the pretences with which he had endeavoured to conceal his inten- tions , and , in 1453 , he marched upon Constantinople and commenced the ...
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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
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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.