...secured the farm of the peasant and the - shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a ' soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community.' The increase of the monarchical power and prerogative, in some cases by lapsed fiefs, in others by the...

...slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community." Robertson, on the contrary, has represented the consequences of the crusades as altogether beneficial.*...

...secured the farm of the peasant, and the 1 " shop of the artificer; and gradually restored '* a substance and a soul to the most numerous " and useful part...the smaller and nutritive " plants of the soil."* KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS; KNIGHTS TEMPLARS; and TEUTONIC KNIGHTS.—Intimately connected with the history...

...secured the " farm of the peasant, and the shop of the " artificer, and gradually restored a substance " and a soul to the most numerous and useful " part of the community." And a celebrated historian of our own times, in treating on this subject, thus describes the advantages...

...the causes that undermined that Gothic edifiee, a conspicuous place must be allowed to the crusades. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air »nd scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. acts. Gibbon. WALTER,...

...slave, secured the farm uf the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community.' Robertson, on the contrary, has represented the consequencesof the crusades as altogether beneficial...

...and their race often extinguished in the costly and perilous expeditions of the Crusades, he says, " The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren...vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the 8oil."t Accordingly, after the conclusion of the war caused by the French Revolution, such a period...

...and their race often extinguished in the costly and perilous expeditions of the Crusades, he says, " The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren...vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil."t Accordingly, after the conclusion of the war caused by the French Revolution, such a period...

...conveys an image to the fancy and an argument to the understanding. “The conflagration,” says he, “which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the...forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the nutritive plants of the soil ;“ that is, the Crusades destroyed the feudal lords, and brought forward...

...retarded it in the rest of Europe. Gibbon closes his observations upon the crusades by saying, that the conflagration, which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and room to the nutritive plants of the soil; a metaphor which Professor Smyth interprets by the overthrow...