This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...downfall, (i) It sanctified treachery, for it rested on the principle that no faith was to be (i) Bad faith kept with the unbeliever; and the sowing of "jj8 wind by the constant breach of solemn com-Moslem. pacts made them reap the whirlwind. A right of pasturage round Paneas had been granted to the Mahometans ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...downfall, (i) It sanctified treachery, for it rested on the principle that no faith was to be (i) Bad faith kept with the unbeliever; and the sowing of "jj8 wind by the constant breach of solemn com-Moslem. pacts made them reap the whirlwind. A right of pasturage round Paneas had been granted to the Mahometans by Baldwin III. When the ground was covered with their sheep, the Christian troops burst in, murdered the shepherds, and drove away their flocks, --not with the sanction, we may hope, of the most high-minded of the Latin kings of Jerusalem. (2) It recognised no title Disre. to property except in those who professed the gard of rights faith of Christ, and the power to commit " I""pul injustice with practical impunity tended still further to demoralise the people. (3) It gave full play (j);i;. to the passions of men in random wars and tary disci-petty forays, while it did little to keep up pmf" or to promote either military science or the discipline without which that science becomes useless. (4) It was...... marked by an almost total lack of statesman-(4) Lack of, . T '., statesman-ship. In a country so circumstanced a wise s Ip' ruler would strain every nerve to conciliate the conquered people, to strengthen himself by alliances which should be firmly maintained and by treaties which should be scrupulously kept, to weaken such states as he might fail to win over to his friendship by anticipating combinations which might bring with them fatal dangers for his power. That the history of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem presents a mournful and even ludicrous contrast to this picture, it must surely be unnecessary to say. In the case of Egypt alone did the Latin kings show some sense of the course which prudence called upon them to take; and...
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