 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1844 - 338 pages
...retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by the same road which God has opened to the Turks " ; and with these words he hastily passed through one of the breaches...inner wall. By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life ; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or the isle of Chios, were... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1844 - 332 pages
...is slight ; the danger is pressing ; your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ? " " I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by the...same road which God has opened to the Turks " ; and with these words he hastily passed through one of the breaches of the inner wall. By this pusillanimous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...slight ; the danger is pressing : your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ? " — "I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by...inner wall. By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life ; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or the Isle of Chios, were... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...slight; the danger is pressing; your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ? " — " I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by the...he survived in Galata, or the isle of Chios, were imbittered by his own and the public reproach.* His example was imitated by the greatest part of the... | |
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1856 - 352 pages
...asked to return to the walls, for his wound was but slight, he refused, saying, " No, I will retire by the same road which God has opened to the Turks," and he hastily passed through one of the breaches of the inner walls ; by this act of fear, he stained... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Battles - 1862 - 436 pages
...is slight ; the danger is pressing ; your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ?" " I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by the...inner wall. By this pusillanimous act, he stained the honors of a military life ; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or the isle of Chios, were... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 652 pages
...slight ; the danger is pressing : you? presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ? " — "1 will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by the...inner wall, By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life ; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or tny Isle of Chios, were... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1876 - 652 pages
...slight ; the danger is pressing : your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ?" — " I will retire,*' said the trembling Genoese, " by...passed through one of the breaches of the inner wall. Ry this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military lite ; and the few days which he survived... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...Palaeologus, " is slight, the danger is pressing, your presence is necessary, and whither will you retire?" "I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by...life; and the few days which he survived in Galata, on the Isle of Chios, 1 were embittered by his own and the public reproach. His example was imitated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1880 - 662 pages
...slight ; the danger is pressing : your presence is necessary ; and whither will you retire ? " — "1 will retire," said the trembling Genoese, " by the...inner wall. By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life ; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or tin: Isle of Chios, were... | |
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I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, "by the same road which God has opened to the Turks;" and at these words he hastily passed through one of the breaches of the inner wall. By this pusillanimous act, he stained the... 
