 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science ; but, in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious picture of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious picture of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious picture of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science ; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...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 - Bible - 1832 - 392 pages
...evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...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 - 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,... | |
 | William Sullivan - Asia - 1838 - 640 pages
...is blood, horror, and confusion ; nor shall I strive, at the distance of three centuries, and 1000 miles, to delineate a scene of which there could be...were incapable of forming any just or adequate idea. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier, was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...«f war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science ; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
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... dispelled by 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... 
