Answer:
From the lines that are available in the question, the ones that describe more explicitly his participation in the Crusades are:
“This self-same worthy Knight had been also
At one time with the lord of Palatye…”
Here he is described as having served the lord of Palatye. Palatye is the Middle English version of the word Palathia. Palathia was a Christian fief in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). When the Crusaders went to Asia Minor on their way to liberate the Holy Land from Islamic invaders, they established several Christian lordships along the route in order to protect Christian pilgrims from Europe on their way to Jerusalem. Palathia was one of such lordships and it was located in Asia Minor, in what had been part of the Christian Byzantine Empire and had been invaded and conquered by Muslim Turks.
Dickens's object of social
criticism in this excerpt from Hard Times is that a system of education that
treats children like machines. The answer is letter A. It is shown in the novel
that the teachers only taught students regarding on the works of the society
but did not focus on the emotional context. The only thing that the teachers
care about are the results of the input that they gave. If this is not
corrected, then the students will bring it to the society. That is why, there
is a large gap between the rich and the poor. The rich believes that the poor
can make it if they strive harder. What makes it harder is that the poor has to
undergone so many things, pain and hardships in other to get to the top and
some of them could not even reach there. This is what is wrong in the society.
