Memoir of the Illustrious and Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, from the Capitulation of Malta in 1798 to the Present Period ...: And Presenting a More Detailed Account of Its Sixth Or British Branch ... with an Appendix Containing Notices of the Order ... Also a Biographically Annotated Roll of Living and Deceased Members of the English LangueRichard Keene, 1869 - 237 pages |
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Memoir of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem: From the Capitulation of Malta ... Robert Bigsby No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 66 - Suabia, which fell into the hands of the grand-duke of Baden. Of the eight languages abovementioned, the English became extinct in the sixteenth century; the three French languages perished during the revolution ; those of Castile and Arragon were separated from Malta at the peace of Amiens, and the Italian and German languages have since been abolished. Thus the order of St. John is to be regarded as extinct, and its restoration is the less to be looked for, as the island of Malta has been formally...
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Page 119 - Jerusalem ; the central one is a cast from the original marble statue of Villiers de 1'Isle Adam in the attitude of prayer, the piers of the arches and the intervals of the wall between the pictures are filled with escutcheons bearing the respective names and dates.
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