 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...that ducal title, which has been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes *. In the service of Henry the fourth, he bore the great...deliverer. His valour was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult of a camp, he practised the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes.44 In the service of Henry the Fourth be bore the great standard of the empire, and pierced...deliverer. His valour was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult of a camp, he practised the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 780 pages
...been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes. In the service of Henry IV. he bore the great standard of the Empire, and pierced...deliverer. His valour was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult of a camp, he practised the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes. In the service of Henry IV. he bore the great standard of the Empire, and pierced...sepulchre, not as a pilgrim, but a deliverer. His valor was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 474 pages
...been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes. In the service of Henry IV. he bore the great standard of the Empire, and pierced...sepulchre, not as a pilgrim, but a deliverer. His valor was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 458 pages
...been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes. In the service of Henry IV. he bore the great standard of the Empire, and pierced with his lance the breast of Eodolph,the rebel king; Godfrey was the first who ascended the walls of Rome; and his sickness, his... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes. In the service of Henry IV. he bore the great standard of the Empire, and pierced...sepulchre, not as a pilgrim, but a deliverer. His valor was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 pages
...been improperly transferred to his lordship of Bouillon in the Ardennes. In the service of Henry IV. he bore the great standard of the Empire, and pierced...visiting the holy sepulchre, not as a pilgrim, but i deliverer. His valor was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 632 pages
...of these Christian adventurers. I. The first rank both in war and council is justly due to Godfrey of Bouillon ; and happy would it have been for the...sepulchre, not as a pilgrim, but a deliverer. His valor was matured by prudence and moderation ; his piety, though blind, was sincere ; and, in the tumult... | |
 | Friedrich Ludwig G. von Raumer - 1878 - 160 pages
...13. nnSeCerrfc$t, 'not swayed.' 15. etnnelm1ent, ' prepossessing.' 21. 'In the service of Henry IV Godfrey was the first who ascended the walls of Rome,...visiting the holy sepulchre, not as a pilgrim, but as a deliverer.' Gibbon (ch. LVIII.). 23. 1mfф1ct!tф (adv.) = in unpafienter SBetfe. (This is very... | |
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In the service of Henry the Fourth, he bore the great standard of the empire, and pierced with his lance the breast of Rodolph, the rebel king : Godfrey was the first who ascended the walls of Rome ; and his sickness, his vow, perhaps his remorse for... 
