



nnm.il cm !li<f'"cr, tvcld;et Tho 



.it Dl 



; tjet'e, al* cine ocl'uiac 

 iiuiiit ia i-uicin flfi'mrmi fli-rrcr. 



Hi;iiliM.a. 'I :.. .'- In. : v.:i - 



ill u 

 OH' 



.in that there are 



crtultcte. 



gkh memo, Veltnt, tie ihrcn 

 Gtyarac'tev ttf t ityr Sllta be- 



Gt 



belMur'ten. tap e* (Sin*. 

 loot 



d' irt fiin Wm\0) un'glWH^rt, al Thoro is no mortal mono unfor- 

 Kr, ii'ditcr me 'Ji!runuarita.fcttcn tiuiaUi than ho (that ouo) 



who nmvr endured rovcrsoa 

 of fortune. 



Then- an- few ln-roes who main- 

 tain thoir character till (in) 

 tlifir old Age. 



ill ni$t lo'tenau'crtfcer, alj Thoro is nothing: mor.' 

 antcvc tal'icnijc ju Icbrtn.ytoa* worthy than to teach what 

 man iff n;. ono knows to ot i. 



EXERCISE 68. 



1. G gictt tiefe 3afit far iri Dbft. 2. ff* ifl Ijeutc fcfir 



SBetter. 3. P' qictt nicbr arme, aU reid;c Scute. 4. (J iji ctu 



iDcramta.cn, ticfcn 2Rotgn fvajieren ju getycn. 5. irl-t cS in Teutfc$(anfc 



icntc S&iere? C. < giebt nod; tide SBi-lfc in ten <chra.cn. 



icinUi'.t' '.'IriiKc i|l auf ityrcm Stucfutge. 8. tebt c etwaJ 



r-<, al-< ten Nufgang ter Sonne? 9. (i fiat ten ganjen Sag 



<]cM<!ifit. 1<\ I'Micn Sit ttefen Siarfmiittaa. nut mic auf' <Si? 11. 



.- tftaut fd;on, unb fca 6i-J faun leic^t bwdjen. 12. SBenn ei 



tagt, ttjcrtc id? Ste ju rinem avM" 1 ^' 1 "'] aMu'tcn. 13. V?t fd;ncit fteute 



ten canjen Sao.. 14. 9tca.net e fcbcn ? 15. Slein. afrcr e-3 unrt Kilr 



anfana.cn ju rcgnen. 1C. 2Bie lange 6at t-3 gcrcgnct ? 17. (** Kit h 



etcr lliir gcrco.net. 18. Icnncrt e? 19. 3a, e tennert nut Mtyt. unt> 



ie^> furcate, taji e aucf) hageln irt. 20. 2Bo joaren 5ic, wabrent c3 



f4>neite? 21. 3d; fucfjte in ter CaptHe tc St. eorg 3uflnd;t, tcnn e.3 



fdmeitc ni-;bt r.nr, fontcrn c ftiirmte unt ^agcttt aud;. 22. 3d; (age 



Sbncn nur ta, a (Sect. XXI. 1) id; gefii'rt ^abe. 



EXERCISE 69. 



1. It seemed this morning as if it [n( cb eS] would rain, but 

 now tho weather begins to bo fine. 2. It happened [eS crcignetc 

 .it it rained just as the battle commenced, and it thun- 

 :uid hailed throughout the whole day. 3. It has rained, 

 hailed, snowed, and frozen this winter. 4. As long as it rains 

 I cannot depart. 5. It appears that there are many strangers 

 in this hotel. 6. There are (exist) many things which wo cannot 

 oecplain. 7. As soon as it becomes day, I shall call upon you to 

 go and seo the rising of the sun. 8. Exists there anything more 

 noble than to forgive an enemy ? 9. Do you intend to go to- 

 morrow with mo upon the ico ? 10. No, I fear that it thawa 

 already, and it would be dangerous to venture it [qcfdbrttd; fcin. e3 

 git nxjgcn]. 11. As soon as tho wind abates it w?H rain. 12. In 

 every community there exist mcro blockheads than villains, and 

 more ignorant men than learned. 



HISTORIC SKETCHES. X. 



THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS, OE BED CROSS KNIGHTS. 



ON tho borders of tho debateablo land where the jurisdictions 

 of tho Queen and of tho Lord Mayor of London conflict and con- 

 join, is a stately monument (not Temple Bar), rich in historic 

 ; . and in memories of bygone men. Hidden away under 

 tho block of buildings which form the south side of Fleet Street, 

 ono does not notice, without seeking for them, tho colleges of 

 tho Inner and Middle Temple, which constitute the monument 

 alluded.to. It is from tho river, from Waterloo or Blackfriars 

 Bridge, or better still from the Surrey shore, that ono sees 



" Those bricVy towers, 



Tho which on Thames' broad, aged back do ride, 

 Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, 

 Thero whilomo wont the Templar kuights to bide, 

 Till they decayed through pride." 



Within those " bricky towers " do now study and work the 

 apprentices, barristers, and serjcants of the law who are mem- 

 bers of tho two societies of the Temple ; there are collected some 

 of the brightest mir.ds which tho Universities of tho kingdom 

 have trained, some of the wittiest heads that ever Nature looked 

 upon and smiled, some of tho moat intellectual, poliakod, and 



learned man that are owned by tho thre* kingdoms. Thvj call 

 thum*olvM Templars, tht-y worship in common in tho Tempi* 

 Church, and tho v prwerra tho device* and tradition* of an order 

 of knight* whooe name they bear, and in wboM anati they aiL 

 How in thin '( Wat it always so t Certainly sot The Unw 

 of Edmund Spencer, quoted above, testify a* much, and their 

 witnoM, a* wo shall aoo in the ooone of thii ketch, M exactly 

 oven with tho truth. Let tu inquire omewhat into the history 

 of these colleges of law, and see how they came to be oollsyss 

 at all; let u* glean something out of the historio memories 

 vrhjch cling around them, and follow tho path pointed out by 

 tho finger of Time till it leads us to tho epoch when the law era 

 dwelt not in tho Temple, but armed Chrutiaaity staUea her 

 horse and sharpened her sword there. 



Thoro wan a cry in Christendom that the heathen had entered 

 into tho inheritance of God, and had defiled His holy place* 

 Stories tho moat pitiablo were told of what the infidels had 

 dono to thoso who went up to Jerusalem to worship ; how that 

 onco moro tho wicked hod given the dead bodies of God's ser- 

 vants to bo meat for tho fowls of the air, and the flesh 

 saints to tho beasts of tho land. A thrill of horror went through 

 men as they listened to tho accounts, moxt likely exaggerated, 

 which were repeated from mouth to mouth, " and the sensation 

 vibrated to tho heart of Europe." .Swiftly thoro followed upon 

 this a determination t > be up and doing, a stern sentiment 

 founded on religion and soldierly anger, prompting men to exact 

 satisfaction at tho risk of their lives for the blood of . Christ's 

 children which had been shed. This was in the year 1090. 



The Saracens (a people often confounded with Turks, from 

 whom they were altogether dissimilar), from Arabia, had con- 

 quered Palestine in tho year of our Lord 637, driving out the 

 authority of tho declining Greek emperors, and establishing the 

 religion and tho state system of Mahomet. The Caliphs, or 

 chiefs of the Saracens, had so far respected the religion and 

 social habits of tho conquered Christians, that they had allowed 

 them to retain about one-fourth of tho city of Jerusalem, besides 

 numerous places in the provinces. Among other things which 

 they were permitted to keep was tho Church of tho Holy Sepul- 

 chre, which tho Empress Helena, mother of tho first Christian 

 Emperor, Constantino, had built over the spot where tho Saviour 

 \ras supposed to have been buried. The Christians experienced 

 at the hands of tho Saracens the greatest moderation, though 

 the character and principles of the two religions were essentially 

 different, and in some particulars diametrically opposed. Pil- 

 grims flocked in hundreds and thousands from all parts of 

 Europe, to ECO the places which had been honoured by the real 

 presence of their Lord, to utter their prayers in the very places 

 where Ho had prayed, to abaso themselves on the very scene of 

 His sufferings, and to adore Him in Jerusalem, " the place 

 where God ought to be worshipped." Though their numbers 

 must have proved inconvenient, one would think, to the Mussul- 

 man authorities, and though their enthusiasm was not unlikely 

 to have produced breaches of tho peace, we do not hear of their 

 having been interfered with. Occasionally, perhaps, there was 

 a disturbance, but that in all probability was due rather to the 

 imprudence of the Christians than to tho tyranny of the Caliph; 

 so the pilgrimages went on, and were accounted by the reli- 

 gious system of the day for righteousness in those who per- 

 formed them. 



But a change came. In the year 1065, the year before the 

 conquest of England by the Normans, Palestine was wrested 

 from the Saracens by tho Turcoman troops, whom they had 

 hired, in tho decline of their own vigour, to defend them. The 

 power of tho Arabian Caliphs was over ; that of the Turkish 

 Sultans or Emirs had taken its place. A very different sort 

 of power tho Christians found it. Though professing the same 

 < the Saracens, tho Turks had none of their moderation. 

 Brutality coupled with fanaticism these were the principles 

 on which tho now rulers proceeded to gevern. Forthwith 

 came a wail of misery from tho Holy Land; pilgrims wen 

 ill-treated, insulted, and put to death. Women (it was cus- 

 tomary oven for women to go) were outraged ; taxes the most 

 ollVnsivo were exacted from those pilgrims who had money, and 

 thoso who had none were driven back with tho sword, whilst great 

 numbers perished through tho instrumentality of the Turks. 

 A golden fee was required of every ono before he could be ad- 

 mitted to tho Holy Sepulchre. The Patriarch of Jerusalem was 

 dragged across his church by the hair of his head, and flung into 



