| Idumaea - 1799 - 204 страница
...local ; that the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; and that the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia The independence of the Arabs was proverbial in ancient as well as in modern times ; and the present existence,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 страница
...in the face of their brethren. Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris i and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present sovereign... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 страница
...in the face of their brethren. Yet these exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies:...Sesostris and Cyrus/ of Pompey and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks f may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction,... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 страница
...admits that ' these exceptions are temporary or local.' ' The body of the nation,' he acknowleges, ' has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies:...Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey, and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction,... | |
| Elijah Parish - 1810 - 410 страница
...and their's against every man, yet they dwell securely among their brethren. The body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies. The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Csesar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved the conquest of Arabia. The present sovereign... | |
| Elijah Parish - 1813 - 538 страница
...theirs against every man's, yet they shall dwell securely among their brethren. The body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies. The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Cassar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved the conquest of Arabia. The present sovereign... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 страница
...in the face of their brethren. YTet these exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Poinpey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks"... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 страница
...the face of their brethren. Yet these ^ L' exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies...present sovereign of the Turks* may exercise a shadow ofj jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people, whom it is dangerous... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 страница
...in the face of their brethren. Yet these exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, " Mirnm diotfi ex innntneris populis pars sequn in commerciis aut in latrociniia d» fit. (Win. Hist.... | |
| Herodotus - 1830 - 472 страница
...Upon this subject the following animated apostrophe from Mr Gibbon, includes all that need be said. " The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan,...may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride i • reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless... | |
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