Excerpt from Achievements of the Knights of Malta, Vol. 1 of 2 Though the days of chivalry are gone, the author of the following work trusts that the admiration of martial renown is still sufficiently general to secure some degree of favour for a history Of the achievements Of one Of the most illustrious institutions that originated in knightly daring and pious zeal. Scarcely thirty years have elapsed, since foreign violence and political craft, combined with their own degeneracy, deprived the Knights Of Malta of their ...
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Excerpt from Achievements of the Knights of Malta, Vol. 1 of 2 Though the days of chivalry are gone, the author of the following work trusts that the admiration of martial renown is still sufficiently general to secure some degree of favour for a history Of the achievements Of one Of the most illustrious institutions that originated in knightly daring and pious zeal. Scarcely thirty years have elapsed, since foreign violence and political craft, combined with their own degeneracy, deprived the Knights Of Malta of their independence, and ejected them from the insular fastness which remains to this day, and will remain, to the latest posterity, a monument Of their military skill; yet, in that short space Of time, so completely has their name been blotted from the records Of the day, that their very place of retreat has become, generally speaking, a matter Of uncertainty. When it is considered that, for seven centuries, these military friars were regarded as one Of the chief bulwarks. Of Christendom against the progress of the Mohammedan arms, and that their annals embrace -a series Of chivalrous ex ploits, unparalleled in the history Of any other sovereignty, there is surely room for hope, that an attempt to revive the memory of their institution will not prove altogether unac ceptable. As the Order Of the Knights Hospitallers Of Saint John Of Jerusalem - for such was the original title Of the Institution. 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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