A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . o main-taining the Christian cause. They were invested with various rightsand prerogatives, the better to enable them to fulfil their vow. Invirtue of the rich possessions with which they were endowed by theprinces of the church and the grandees, for the furtherance of theirpious and patriotic end, and of their exceptional ecclesiastical andpolitical position, these orders (Figs. 115-118) stood almost outsidethe sphere of the states they professed to serve. In process of time,through their strong and rigor
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . o main-taining the Christian cause. They were invested with various rightsand prerogatives, the better to enable them to fulfil their vow. Invirtue of the rich possessions with which they were endowed by theprinces of the church and the grandees, for the furtherance of theirpious and patriotic end, and of their exceptional ecclesiastical andpolitical position, these orders (Figs. 115-118) stood almost outsidethe sphere of the states they professed to serve. In process of time,through their strong and rigorous organizations they even constitutedthemselves into little military quasi-states, which menaced the po-sition of the king by encroaching on the latters military was due to the Orders, however, that, even at this period of domes-tic dissension and turmoil in the peninsula, the war against theMussulmans never came entirely to a standstill, and that, notwith-standing all vicissitudes, the domains of the Christians remained at 259 .(JU CUaiüTIAXlTY AND L-iLAM,
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