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Identifier: popularhistoryof02guiz (find matches)
Title: A popular history of France : from the earliest times
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Guizot, M. (François), 1787-1874
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Publisher: Boston : D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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by Christian Europe in the East, the loss ofthe only striking and permanent gage of her victories. Chris-tian pride was as much wounded as Christian piety. A newfact, moreover, was conspicuous in this series of reverses andin the accounts received of them ; after all its defeats and inthe midst of its discord, Islamry had found a chieftain and ahero. Saladin was one of those strange and superior beingswho, by their qualities and by their very defects, make a strongimpression upon the imaginations of men, whether friends orfoes. His Mussulman fanaticism was quite as impassioned asthe Christian fanaticism of the most ardent crusaders. Whenhe heard that Reginald of Chatillon, Lord of Karac, on theconfines of Palestine and Arabia, had all but succeeded in anattempt to go and pillage the Caaba and the tomb of Mahomet,he wrote to his brother Malek-Adhel, at that time governorof Egypt, The infidels have violated the home and the cradleof Islamism; they have profaned our sanctuary. Did we not
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THE CHRISTIANS OF THE HOLY CITY DEFILING BEFORE SALADIN. — Page 28. Chap. XVII.) DECLINE AND END OF THE CRUSADES. 29 prevent a like insult (which God forbid!) we should renderourselves guilty in the eyes of God and the eyes of men.Purge we, therefore, our land from these men who dishonor it;purge we the very air from the air they breathe. He com-manded that all the Christians who could possibly be capturedon this occasion should be put to death; and many were takento Mecca, where the Mussulman pilgrims immolated theminstead of the sheep and lambs they were accustomed tosacrifice. The expulsion of the Christians from Palestine wasSaladhis great idea and unwavering passion; and he severelychid the Mussulmans for their soft-heartedness in the struggle. Behold these Christians, he wrote to the Khalif of Bagdad, how they come crowding in ! How emulously they press on!They are continually receiving fresh re-enforcements morenumerous than the waves of the sea, and to us more bitterthan its

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