 | University of Oxford - Taylorian Scholarships - 1874 - 104 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valour ; he was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion ; and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous ministers... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valour; he was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion, and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. From the lines, the... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valour ; he was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion ; and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous ministers... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valor; he was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion ; and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. 5. His numerous ministers... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1888 - 560 pages
...was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion; and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by...were posted behind the line, to urge, to restrain, to punish; and if danger was in the front, shame and inevitable death were in the rear, of the fugitives.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valor. He was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion, and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous ministers... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 254 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valor. He was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved...decisive occasions; and the tide of battle was directed 5 and impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous ministers of justice were posted behind the line,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 254 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valor. He was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved...decisive occasions; and the tide of battle was directed 5 and impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous ministers of justice were posted behind the line,... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valour. He was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved for the decisive occasion • and the 5 tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. His numerous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 688 pages
...horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their valor: he was surrounded by ten thousand of his domestic troops, whom he reserved...numerous ministers of justice were posted behind the " Besides the 10,000 guards, and the sailors and the marines, DUCM numbers in this general assault... | |
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In that fatal moment the Janizaries arose, fresh, vigorous, and invincible. The sultan himself on horseback, with an iron mace in his hand, was the spectator and judge of their... 
