| Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - Albigenses - 1826 - 320 pages
...they set fire to the city, in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funereal pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being alive. Historians...reduces it to fifteen thousand, others make it amount to sixty. 4 The terror inspired by the massacre at Beziers, caused all the country places to be deserted.... | |
| 1826 - 598 pages
...they set fire to the city in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funeral pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being alive. Historians differ as to the number of victims. The abbot of Oiteaux, feeling some shame for the butchery which he had ordered, in his letter to Innocent III, reduces... | |
| 1826 - 600 pages
...should distinguish the Catholics from the heretics : ' Kill ' them all ; the Lord will know his own' Historians differ as to the number of victims. The Abbot of Citeaux, in his letter to Pope Innocent,, modestly estimates it at fifteen thousand : Bernard of Limoges, a... | |
| William Russell Macdonald - Anti-Catholic literature - 1829 - 286 pages
...Languedoc, where he founded his order in 1215. He died in 1221, at Bologna, and was CANONIZED ! ! ! " standing, not one human being alive. Historians differ...which he had ordered, in his " letter to Innocent HI. reduces it to 15,000, others make it « amount to 60,000." The persecutions of this devoted race... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 336 pages
...they set fire to the city in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funeral pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being alive. Historians...reduces it to fifteen thousand, others make it amount to sixty."* " The legate was profoundly penetrated with the maxim of Innocent III., that to heep faith... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 338 pages
...pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human heing alive. Historians differ as to the numbers of victims. The abbot of Citeaux, feeling some shame...reduces it to fifteen thousand, others make it amount to sixty."* " The legate was profoundly penetrated with the maxim of Innocent III., that ' to keep faith... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...they set fire to the city in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funeral pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being alive. Historians...some shame for the butchery which he had ordered, reduces it, in his letter to Innocent the Third, to fifteen thousand ; others make it amount to sixty... | |
| William Jones - 1838 - 708 pages
...not one human being was left alive. Historians differ as to the number of victims. The pope's legate, feeling some shame for the butchery which he had ordered,...it to fifteen thousand ; others make it amount to sixty.* The terror inspired by the massacre at Beziers caused all the country places to be deserted.... | |
| Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...funeral pile. Not a house remained itanding, not one human being was left alive. Historians differ IB to the number of victims. The abbot of Citeaux, feeling...the butchery which he had ordered, in his letter to Inpcent III. reduces it to fifteen thousand ; others make it amount towty.' ' At Carcassonne, the bulk... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 996 pages
...they set fire to the city, in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funeral pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being alive. Historians...it to fifteen thousand ; others make it amount to sixty." ' 1 Sitinmdi, pp. 35—37. At Carcassonne, the bulk of the inhabitants escaped in the night... | |
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