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Towers, walls, and earthworks are of little value to a city unless there are defenders to man them.
Historia (1170)
Blessed is the man to whom are ascribed as faults those traits which would be called virtues in another.
Historia (1170)
The Caliph appointed commanders and supplied money, called for speed and censured delay.
Historia (1170)
They promised to live in perpetuity as regular canons, without possessions, under vows of chastity and obedience.
Historia (1170)
It is said today that their wealth is equal to the treasures of kings.
Historia (1170)
The name means "bloody" or "dripping with gore."
Historia (1170)
They conferred, therefore, and with the ingenuity which is characteristic of those suffering misery and adversity, they had recourse to desperate devices.
Historia (1170)
The enemy fleet approached the city boldly, bringing the townsmen the consolation they had hoped for.
Historia (1170)
He was considered by everyone to be most outstanding in the use of weapons and in military operations.
Historia (1170)
His strength and his prudence were not equal to the intolerable burden which he placed upon his shoulders.
Historia (1170)
He felt secure and trusted far too much in the good faith of the Turks, which gave the murderer his chance.
Historia (1170)
Egypt would neither know nor produce fruitful harvests of any kind if it were not fertilized at certain times by the overflowing bounty of the Nile.
Historia (1170)
The river thus expands or contracts the extent of the Kingdom, for the places which are not irrigated by the river are doomed, as we have said, to the burning sun and to perpetual sterility.
Historia (1170)
Like a prudent man, he breathed no harsh words and manifested no hatred. He concealed his designs with the shrewdness of which he was a master.
Historia (1170)
Everyone's mind was made up: put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
Historia (1170)
They have also taken away tithes and first fruits from God's churches, have disturbed their possessions, and have made themselves exceedingly troublesome.
Historia (1170)
Saladin was a man of keen intelligence. He was vigorous in war and unusually generous.
Historia (1170)
The princes wept for joy and lifted up their eyes and hands to the sky, giving abundant thanks to the Creator because he had deigned to grant such abundant treasure to unworthy men.
Historia (1170)
In that same year [1144], during the time which elapsed between the death of King Baldwin's father and Baldwin's elevation to the throne, one Zengi, a vicious man, was the most powerful of the Eastern Turks.
Historia (1170)
There was, as we have said before, bad feeling between Count Joscelyn and the Prince of Antioch — a feeling that was not hidden, but rather had become an open hatred.
Historia (1170)