 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 564 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...scene of which there could be no spectators, and of whichthe actors themselves were incapable of forming any just or adequate idea. The immediate loss... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...of forming any just or adequate idea. The immediate lossof Constantinople maybe ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 458 pages
...mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science ; but in the uni* form and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople maybe ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion ; nor shall 1 strive, at the distance of three centuries and a thousand miles, to delineate a scene, of which there... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 492 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...distance of three centuries and a thousand miles, to CHAP. Jelineate a scene, of which there could be no spec- LXVIIItators, and of which the actors themselves... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1829 - 482 pages
...uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion ; nor shall 1 strive, at the distance of three centuries and a thousand...bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiuiani. The sight of his blood, and the exquisite pain, appalled the courage of the chief, wnose... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...d/c., voL xii. p. 213. Note 20, page 189, col. 2. And stanch the blood-drops, Genoa's fallen son ! ' The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the ;auntlet of John Justiniani (a Genoese chief). The sight of his blood, and exquisite pain, aplalled... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Bible - 1832 - 392 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...incapable of forming any just or adequate idea."* By these three was the THIRD PART of men KILLED, by THE FIRE, AND BV THE SMOKE, AND BY T1IK BRIMSTONE,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science ; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...incapable of forming any just or adequate idea."* By these three was the THIRD PART of men KILLED, by THE FIRE, AND BY THE SMOKE, AND BY THE BRIMSTONE,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...necessary though pernicious science ; but in the uniform aud odious pictures of a general assault, ail is blood, and horror, and confusion : nor shall I...incapable of forming any just or adequate idea."* By these three was the THIRD p AKT of men KILLED, by THE FIRE, AND BY THE SMOKE, AND BY THB BRIMSTONE,... | |
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... the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections; the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious,... 
