The Knights of st. John: with The battle of Lepanto and Siege of Vienna [by A. T. Drane, ed. by E. H. Thomson.].Burns & Oates, 1858 - 282 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 56 - Cut off from all ties of country, kith, and kin, but with high pay and privileges, with ample opportunities for military advancement, and for the gratification of the violent, the sensual, and the sordid, passions of their animal natures amid the customary atrocities of successful warfare, this military brotherhood grew up to be the strongest and fiercest instrument of imperial ambition, which remorseless fanaticism, prompted by the most subtle statecraft, ever devised upon earth...
Σελίδα 13 - Missal. -New and Complete Pocket Missal, in Latin and English, with all the new Offices and the Proper of Ireland, Scotland, and the Jesuits.
Σελίδα 9 - Beantiful as it is, even in our own day, it was yet more beantiful when, seven centuries ago, it was the Christian capital of the East. Its snow-white palaces sparkled like jewels against the dark woods of Carmel which rose towards the south. To the east there stretched away the glorious plain, over which the eye might wander till it lost itself in the blue outlines of hills on which no Christian eye could gaze unmoved ; for they hid in their bosoms the village of Nazareth and the waters of Tiberias,...
Σελίδα 9 - ... summits of a lofty mountain range, whose bases were clothed with cedar ; while all along the lovely coast broke the blue waves of that mighty sea, whose shores are the empires of the world. "And there lay Acre among her gardens ; the long rows of her marble houses with their flat roofs, forming terraces, odorous with orange-trees, and rich with flowers of a thousand hues, which silken awnings shaded from the sun. You might walk from one end of the city to the other on these terraced roofs, and...
Σελίδα 9 - To the east there stretched away the glorious plain, over which the eye might wander till it lost itself in the blue outlines of hills, on which no Christian eye could gaze unmoved, for they hid in their bosom the village of Nazareth, and the waters of Tiberias, and had been trodden all about by the feet of One whose touch had made them holy ground. That rich and fertile plain, now marshy and deserted, but then a very labyrinth of fields and vineyards, circled Acre also to the north ; but there the...
Σελίδα 3 - We wear this white cross as a sign of purity ; wear it also within thy heart as well as outwardly and keep it without soil or stain. The eight points are the signs of the eight beatitudes, which thou must ever preserve, viz. : 1. Spiritual joy ; II.
Σελίδα 4 - Him ; this is the Cross on which He suffered. Receive, therefore, the yoke of the Lord, for it is easy and light, and will give rest unto thy soul ; and I tie this cord about thy neck in pledge of the servitude thou hast promised. We offer thee nothing but bread and water, and a simple habit and of little worth.
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Σελίδα 30 - Offices printed entire, without abbreviation or reference, and pointed for recitation or chanting, so as to prevent the possibility of mistake. The Office of the Dead, pointed for Chanting, with the Burial Service, expressly adapted for use at Dirges, with the Plain Chant complete. 8vo, very distinct type, 5s. 6d.
Σελίδα 11 - ... stable, and the grand master and his brethren were right glad thereof. So, when the soldan had eaten and drunk, he arose and returned to his country, and sent thence a charter sealed with his own seal, which ran as follows : ' Let all men know that I, Saladin, soldan of Babylon, give and bequeath to the hospital of Acre a thousand bezants of gold, to be paid every year, in peace or war, unto the grand master, be he who he may, in gratitude for the wonderful charity of himself and of his order.