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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades
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He has unaccountably, and to the great perplexity of the reader, placed the preaching of St Bernard after the second crusade to which i led .-- M.] [Footnote 29: Clairvaux, surnamed the valley of Absynth, is situate among the woods near Bar sur Aube in Champagne.

St.Bernard would blush at the pomp of the church and monastery; he would ask for the library, and I know not whether he would be much edified by a tun of 800 muids, (914 1-7 hogsheads,) which almost rivals that of Heidelberg, (Melanges tires d'une Grande Bibliotheque, tom.xlvi.p.

15--20.)] [Footnote 30: The disciples of the saint (Vit.

ima, l.iii.c.2, p.
1232.Vit.iida, c.

16, No.


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