The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 11
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 11
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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A- mong the Latin heroes, Godfrey of Bouillon and Frederic Barbarossa alone could achieve the passage of the Lesser Asia ; yet even their success was a warning; and in the last and most experienced age of the crusades, every nation preferred the sea to the toils and perils of an inland expedition/ The enthusiasm of the first crusade is a natu- obitmacy ral and simple event, while hope was fresh, dan- thwu/m" ger untried, and enterprize congenial to the spi- .^/j^,^"* rit of the times. But the o...bstinate perseve- rance of Europe may indeed excite our pity and admiration; that no instruction should have been drawn from constant and adverse experience; that the same conHdence should have repeatedly grown from the same failures; that six succeeding generations should have rushed headlong down the precipice that was and Bohadin (Yit Saladin, p. 119, 120), tlie ambignoat condnct of Killidge Arilao, raltap of Cogni, who bated and feared both Saladin aad Frederic. * The desire of comparing two great men has tempted many writera to drown Frederic in Uie river Cydnus, in which Alexander so impm* dcntly bathed (Q.
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