| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1789 - 372 pages
...the lines, thegallies, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all fides; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of fmoke , which could only be difpelled by the final deliverance or deftruction of the Roman empire.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...artillery thundered on all sides; and the camoand city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in ft cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the...per•nicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion ; nor shall I strive, at the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 564 pages
...lines, the gallies, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks, and the Turks, were involved in...pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion ; nor shall I strive, at the... | |
| William Haygarth - 1814 - 342 pages
...the bridge, ' the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the ' Greeks and Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be 1 dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire.' * * Milt. Par. Lost. vi.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...lines, the gallies, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a...deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire. The single combate of the heroes of history or fable, amuse our fancy and engage our a flections : the skilful... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 458 pages
...on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of stnoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance...necessary, though pernicious, science ; but in the uni* form and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion : nor shall... | |
| John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...Ottoman cannon." " The Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides, and the camp and city, the Greeks and Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could...final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire." In the explanation of the fifteenth verse, " And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered ou al: sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a...single combats of the heroes of history or fable, amuse ou: fancy and engage our affections: the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks, and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of CHAP. smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deL ' liverance or destruction of the Roman... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1829 - 482 pages
...the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and ihe Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could...and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. Biít in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion... | |
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