 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1852 - 656 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...Roman empire. The single combats of the heroes of historv or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections : the skilful evolutions of war may inform... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1852 - 530 pages
...galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Grecks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke which...final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire." iv. 350. Assuredly, if such was the fact in the conquests of the Turks, it was not unnatural in one... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 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...dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Eoman empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 428 pages
...till the eighth hour of the same day," when eastern Bome was blotted out of the list of nations.5 " The single combats of the heroes of history or fable,...pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion ; nor need we strive, at the... | |
 | Francis H. Berick - Religion - 1854 - 394 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...final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire." When we reflect on the siege of Constantinople, as given in these extracts from Gibbon, an avowed infidel,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 632 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 smoke, which could only be dispelled by the linal deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire. The single "combats of the heroes of history... | |
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1856 - 352 pages
...lines, the gallics, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a...dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction cf the Roman empire. The immediate cause of the loss of Constantinople may oe ascribed to the bullet... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1856 - 520 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 smoke which could only bo dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire." iv. 350. Assuredly, if such... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1857 - 720 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...deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet... | |
 | George Bush - Islam - 1858 - 278 pages
...in the world." " 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...deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire." " The great cannon of Mohammed has been separately an important and visible object in the history of the... | |
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