Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 151
ighty, who placed his feetupon her, honoured by the angels, and visited by all the nations of theearth. A poet of the same period declares, in a burst of fervent inspira-tion : She attracts the faithful as the magnet attracts the steel, as the sheepattracts the lamb with the milk of its teats, as… … THE CRUSADES. corner of the globe so marked with the impress of the Almighty, and theobject of so much veneration. Since the conversion of Constantine I., which so gloriously signalized thetriumph of the cross, and while the ostentatious but feeble successors of thatgreat emperor were preparing the…
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