The Spirit of General History in a Series of Lectures From the Eighth to the
The Spirit of General History in a Series of Lectures From the Eighth to the
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A thirft for glory and wealth excited the brave to take up the crofs ; and this thirfl, they hoped, would be quenched in Afia. To fight at a diflance from home had fomething romantic in it, which fuited the talle of the Europeans of the middle ages.
(236) MODERN HISTORY. Llct. V.
ages. Afia prefented the crufaders with the moll: brilliant conquefls : they believed that viclory would attend their ileps, and that they would return to Europe loaded w^ith the trea- fures of the eafi. If a thirfl fo...r gold, carries the Britifh, and other modern Europeans, to the unhealthy fliores of Africa, to Hindoftan and China ; if the Dutch, to have liberty to trade with the Japanefe, trample upon the crofs ; is it furprifmg that the anceilors of the fame na^ tions, with limilar views and expedations^ fhould have gone into Alia, wearing the badge of the crofs?
The church of Rome was then all-powerful in Europe. She authorifed Chriflians to take up the crofs, and gave to all who did fo, an ex- emption from what opprefTed them in Europe ; now, to men funk in debt, in dread of confine- ment in a prifon, expofed to the infults of ene- mies, it would be thought a very great advan- tage, to have their perfons and property fecurc under the protection of the church.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A thirft for glory and wealth excited the brave to take up the crofs ; and this thirfl, they hoped, would be quenched in Afia. To fight at a diflance from home had fomething romantic in it, which fuited the talle of the Europeans of the middle ages.
(236) MODERN HISTORY. Llct. V.
ages. Afia prefented the crufaders with the moll: brilliant conquefls : they believed that viclory would attend their ileps, and that they would return to Europe loaded w^ith the trea- fures of the eafi. If a thirfl fo...r gold, carries the Britifh, and other modern Europeans, to the unhealthy fliores of Africa, to Hindoftan and China ; if the Dutch, to have liberty to trade with the Japanefe, trample upon the crofs ; is it furprifmg that the anceilors of the fame na^ tions, with limilar views and expedations^ fhould have gone into Alia, wearing the badge of the crofs?
The church of Rome was then all-powerful in Europe. She authorifed Chriflians to take up the crofs, and gave to all who did fo, an ex- emption from what opprefTed them in Europe ; now, to men funk in debt, in dread of confine- ment in a prifon, expofed to the infults of ene- mies, it would be thought a very great advan- tage, to have their perfons and property fecurc under the protection of the church.
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