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" Christ ; and its potent energy was heightened by an accident, a stratagem, or a rumor, of a miraculous complexion. Three knights, in white garments and resplendent arms, either issued, or seemed to issue, from the hills : the voice of Adhemar, the pope's... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 75
by Edward Gibbon - 1806
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Lambeth and the Vatican: Or, Anecdotes of the Church of Rome, of the Refomed ...

Anecdotes - 1825 - 582 pages
...the imagination of a fanatic army. In the season of danger and triumph, the revelation of Bartholomew of Marseilles was unanimously asserted ; but as soon...alms which the Count of Tholouse derived from the custody of the Holy uance, provoked the envy and awakened the reason of his rivals. A Norman clerk...
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Lambeth and the Vatican: Or, Anecdotes of the Church of Rome, of ..., Volume 3

Anecdotes - 1825 - 330 pages
...seemed to issue from the hills; the voice of Adlamar, the pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St. George, St. Theodore, and St. Maurice : the tumult of battle allowed no time for scrutiny, and the welcome apparition dazzled the eyes or the imagination of a fanatic army. In the...
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Outlines of Ecclesiastical History: On a New Plan, Designed for Academies ...

Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...seemed to issue from the hills; the voice of Adlamar, the pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St. George, St. Theodore, and St. Maurice : the tumult of battle allowed no time for scrutiny, and the welcome apparition dazzled the eyes or the imagination of a fanatic army. In the...
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The Virginia Lyceum, Volume 1, Issue 1

1839 - 56 pages
...the potent energy of this relic or trophy, aided by another miraculous delusion would ensure victory. In the season of danger and triumph, the revelation...alms which the count of Tholouse derived from the custody of the holy lance, provoked the envy and awakened the reason of his rivals. Incredulity with...
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Lights and Shadows of European History, Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1844 - 332 pages
...of battle ; and the papal legate, who bore the holy lance, immediately proclaimed them the martyrs St. George, St. Theodore, and St. Maurice. The tumult...battle allowed no time for doubt or scrutiny ; and the triumph of the crusaders was complete. In the end of April, 1099, the army of the crusaders reached...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 7

Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...issue, from the hills : the voice WMTlOT»of Adhemar, the pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St. George, St. Theodore, and St. Maurice : the tumult...the imagination of a fanatic army." In the season of * The Mahometan Aboulmahasen fapud De Guignes, torn. ii. p. ii. p. 95) is more correct in his account...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...to issue, from the hills : the voice of Adhemar, the Pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St George, St Theodore, and St Maurice ; the tumult...dazzled the eyes or the imagination of a fanatic army. 4. GENERAL CONDITION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES. Whatever evils either reason...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...to issue, from the hills : the voice of Adhemar, the Pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St George, St Theodore, and St Maurice ; the tumult...dazzled the eyes or the imagination of a fanatic army. 4. GENERAL CONDITION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES. Whatever evils either reason...
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Graduated exercises for translation into German, extr. from Engl. authors ...

Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...seemed to issue, from the hills: the voice of Adhemar, the Pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St. George, St. Theodore, and St. Maurice; the tumult...dazzled the eyes or the imagination of a fanatic army. Gibbon. DISCOVERY OF A COLOSSAL SCULPTURE AT NIMROUD. In the morning I rode to the encampment of Sheikh...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1867 - 744 pages
...to issue, from the hills : the voice of Adhemar, the pope's legate, proclaimed them as the martyrs St. George, St. Theodore, and St. Maurice : the tumult...apparition dazzled the eyes or the imagination of a fanatic AD 1098. SIEGE AND DEFENCE OF ANTIOCH. 553 army. On this memorable day they annihilated or dispersed...
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