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. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . in that city, led the conquerors int» the moilprivate caves v/here women had concealed themfelveswith their children, and not one of them was fuffcredto efcape. ^^llat eminently Ihows the enthufiafm bywhich thefe conquerors were animated, is their beha-viour after this terrible flaughter. They marchedover heaps of dead bodies towards the holy fepulchre ;and while their hands were yet po
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . in that city, led the conquerors int» the moilprivate caves v/here women had concealed themfelveswith their children, and not one of them was fuffcredto efcape. ^^llat eminently Ihows the enthufiafm bywhich thefe conquerors were animated, is their beha-viour after this terrible flaughter. They marchedover heaps of dead bodies towards the holy fepulchre ;and while their hands were yet polluted with theblood of fo many innocent pcrfons, fung anthems tothe common Saviour of mankind. Nay, fo far didtheir religious enthufiafm overcome their fury, thatthefe ferocious conquerors now burfl into tears. Ifthe abfurdity and of this conduel can beexceeded by any thing, it mufl be by what the year 1204, the frenzy of croifading feized thechildren, who arc ever ready to imitate w-hat theyfee their parents engage themfelves in. Their childiihfolly was encouraged by the monks and fchoolmafters;and thoufands of thofc innocents were cocduftedfrom the i C OR ON A, or ilALO ..^V). i C R O [ 5^t ] C R O Oroife» the IiOiifes of their p; on the faith of thefc words, { << Out of the mouth of babes and fucklings hafl: thu;i Croix, perfected praifc. Their coadtichors iM a. part of * ^^theinto the Turks, and the rc/lperilhtd iniferably. CKOiSES, orCRoizEs, in Englifli antiquity, pil-grims bound for the Holy Land, or fuch as iuvc beenthere ; fo called from a badge they wore in imitationof a croD. The kuij;hts of St John of Jerufalcm, createdfor the defence and protection of pilgrims, were parti-cularly called crofcj. , a religious order founded in honourofthe invention or difcovcry of the crols by theemprefsHelena. They are difpcrfed in fcvcral parts of Europe,particularly in the Low Countries, France, and Uo-hemia, thofe in Italy be
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