 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...the Roman Esifirr. " The purple of there Emperors, who have reigned at Constantinople, will authorize or excuse a digression on the origin and singular fortunes of the house of Courtenay, ' in the three principal branches; first, of Edessa ; • " I have applied, but rot confined,... | |
 | 1822 - 394 pages
...and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil." The limits of an essay do not permit me to dilate upon the advantages which resulted from the crusades... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...mast be allowed to the crusades. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. Gibbon. acts. WALTER, THE PENNYLESS, departs from France, with his fan of crusaders, 1096. By the council... | |
 | Clarkson Stanfield - Coasts - 1836 - 304 pages
...the family of Devon. " The purple of three emperors," says this incomparable writer, " will authorize or excuse a digression on the origin and singular fortunes of the house of Courtenay." He then proceeds to trace the three principal branches of Edessa, of France, and of England.... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 376 pages
...expeditions of the Crusades, he says, " The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil."t Accordingly, after the conclusion of the war caused * See Diss. p. 205. t Gibbon, ch. Ixi.... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 368 pages
...expeditions of the Crusades, he says, " The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil."t Accordingly, after the conclusion of the war caused by the French Revolution, such a period... | |
 | Martin Ruter - Church history - 1845 - 458 pages
...and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil." ( Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. 4.) After his expedition to Clermont, Urban returned into Italy,... | |
 | 1846 - 708 pages
...and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil." Well may we ask, if this is the language of a roan who could decry the Crusades? of one who, but a... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1849 - 808 pages
...and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil."* The martial fever which induced " Europe to precipitate itself upon Asia," having subsided, great events,... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...long " digression on the origin and singular fortune of the house of Courtenay ;" which, he thinks, " the purple of three emperors, who have reigned at Constantinople, will authorise or excuse." He follows the fortunes of the three principal branches, and shows how only the Courtenays of England... | |
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... pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration... 
