Excerpt from Omar, the Tentmaker: A Romance of Old Persia The great Clock of the Ages had scarcely more than marked with its hour-hand the beginning of its second revolution since the birth of our era. In England, Edward the Confessor was just closing his long and virtuous reign, and William the Conqueror was setting sail from France with his suite of Nor man knights; Sancho III. Was king in Spain; Henry IV. Was king in Germany, and Philip I. In France. The mighty impulse that led to the Crusades, and sent millions of men ...
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Excerpt from Omar, the Tentmaker: A Romance of Old Persia The great Clock of the Ages had scarcely more than marked with its hour-hand the beginning of its second revolution since the birth of our era. In England, Edward the Confessor was just closing his long and virtuous reign, and William the Conqueror was setting sail from France with his suite of Nor man knights; Sancho III. Was king in Spain; Henry IV. Was king in Germany, and Philip I. In France. The mighty impulse that led to the Crusades, and sent millions of men to fight and die in the ideal cause of freeing the holy places from the contami nating control of the Saracens, was already beginning to be felt throughout Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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