[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER LIX: The Crusades 19/44
533, 537, 540, 547, &c.)] [Footnote 86: To those who took the cross against Mainfroy, the pope (A.D.
1255) granted plenissimam peccatorum remissionem.
Fideles mirabantur quod tantum eis promitteret pro sanguine Christianorum effundendo quantum pro cruore infidelium aliquando, (Matthew Paris p. 785.) A high flight for the reason of the xiiith century.] [Footnote 87: This simple idea is agreeable to the good sense of Mosheim, (Institut.Hist.Eccles.p.
332,) and the fine philosophy of Hume, (Hist.
of England, vol.i.p.
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