| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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...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... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1883 - 492 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 he dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire. The single combats of the... | |
| London readers - 1884 - 216 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...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... | |
| Uriah Smith - Bible - 1884 - 902 pages
...bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides, the camp and city, the Greeks and the Tui'ks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only...final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire : ' how ' the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins: ' and how the Turks at length... | |
| Edward Bishop Elliott - 1884 - 408 pages
...galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; the camp and city, the Greeks and Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke which could...dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Greek Empire : " — how the walls were rendered by the cannon a heap of ashes ; and so " Constantinople... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1884 - 568 pages
...on all sides ; and the eamp and city, the Grceks and the Turks, were involved in a eloud of smolie which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire," vol. iv. p. 350. Assuredly, if such was the fact in the conquests of the Turks, it was not unnatural... | |
| Uriah Smith - Bible - 1885 - 1006 pages
...'from the lines, the galHes, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides, the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a...final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire: ' how 'the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins:' and how the Turks at length... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 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...could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or de22 struction of the Roman empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our... | |
| Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1888 - 456 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...fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections; the skillful evolutions of war inform the mind and improve a necessary though pernicious science. But,... | |
| Stanley Lane-Poole - Turkey - 1888 - 414 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 signal combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections ; the skilful... | |
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