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Further, always using religion as a plea, so as to undertake

greater schemes, he devoted himself with pious cruelty to driving

out and clearing his kingdom of the Moors; nor could there be a

more admirable example, nor one more rare. Under this same cloak

he assailed Africa, he came down on Italy, he has finally

attacked France; and thus his achievements and designs have

always been great, and have kept the minds of his people in

suspense and admiration and occupied with the issue of them. And

his actions have arisen in such a way, one out of the other, that

men have never been given time to work steadily against him.