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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades
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4, 5.) But, from the march of the emperor, I rather judge, that his Saleph is the Calycadnus, a stream of less fame, but of a longer course.

* Note: It is now called the Girama: its course is described in M'Donald Kinneir's Travels .-- M.] [Footnote 27: Marinus Sanutus, A.D.1321, lays it down as a precept, Quod stolus ecclesiae per terram nullatenus est ducenda.

He resolves, by the divine aid, the objection, or rather exception, of the first crusade, (Secreta Fidelium Crucis, l.ii.pars ii.c.i.p.

37.)] The enthusiasm of the first crusade is a natural and simple event, while hope was fresh, danger untried, and enterprise congenial to the spirit of the times.


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