| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 páginas
...most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris i and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present sovereign of the...exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is rec'miis degit (Plin. Hist. Nat. vi. 32). See Sale1s Koran, Sural cvi. p. 503. Pocock, Specimen, p.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 páginas
...Pompey and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks f may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs. Many ages... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 páginas
...most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey, and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of...jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friend44 Vol. IX. p. 236. ship of a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack45.'... | |
| Herodotus - 1812 - 468 páginas
...all that need be said. "The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia. The present sovereign of the...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs ; the patient... | |
| Elijah Parish - 1813 - 558 páginas
...escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies. The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Caesar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved the conquest...to provoke, and fruitless to attack. Their domestic fueds, are suspended on the approach of a common enemy; and in their last hostilities, against the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 páginas
...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" may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, ciniis degit (Plin. Hist. Nat. vi. 32). See Sale's Koran, Sural, cvi. p. 503. Puciick. Specimen, p.... | |
| David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 páginas
...and from Browne's Trav. p. 446, &c. Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present sovereign of the...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs. The patience... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 páginas
...most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia ; the 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... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 478 páginas
...all that need be said. " The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia. The present sovereign of the...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs ; the patient... | |
| Vans Kennedy - 1828 - 386 páginas
...most powerful monarchies ; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present sovereign of the...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack." — Gibbon's Roman Empire, vol. ix. p. 229. f Ibid. p. 223. mieres. Ce que les plus anciennes histoires... | |
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