 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian aera. The preceding night had been strenuously employed:...fourscore galleys almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders the less defensible walls of the harbour. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...fourscore galleys almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbour. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined:... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...fourscore galleys almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbour. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...fourscore galleys almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbour. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...and level passage to the breach ; and his fourscore gallies, almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Bible - 1832 - 392 pages
...expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...and level passage to the breach; and his fourscore gallies, almost touched with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1844 - 338 pages
...the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been actively employed ; the troops, the cannon, and the fascines...breach, and his fourscore galleys almost touched, with their prows and their scaling-ladders, the less defensible walls of the \ harbour. Under pain of death,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...of the Christian sera. The preceding night had been strenuously employed : the troops, the cannons, and the fascines, ' were advanced to the edge of the...fourscore galleys almost touched, with the prows and their scaling ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbor. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...knowledge of Mahomet advised him to expect the morning, the memorable 29th of May, in the 1453rd year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...harbour. Under pain of death, silence -was enjoined ;t but the physical laws of motion and sound are not obedient to discipline or fear; each individual... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Battles - 1862 - 436 pages
...expect the morning, the memorable twenty-ninth of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been...scaling-ladders, the less defensible walls of the harbor. Under pain of death, silence was enjoined ; but the physical laws of motion and sound, are... | |
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Mahomet advised him to expect the morning, the memorable 29th of May, in the fourteen hundred and fifty-third year of the Christian era. The preceding night had been strenuously employed : the troops, the cannon, and the fascines were advanced to the... 
