 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - Počet stránok 540
...languished and declined.* Under the Ommiades, however, or the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days journey from east...Tartary and India, to the shores of the Atlantic. They possessed ihe continent of Africa, the solid and compadr, dominion from Fargana to Aden, and from... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 304
...wont to express the West by the phrase toward the sea. f " Under the last of the Ommiades, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days journey from East...Atlantic Ocean. And, if we retrench the sleeve of tie rote, as it is styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of Africa," (that is to say,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 592
...wont to express tbe West by the phrase toward tbe sea. f " Under the last of the Ommiades, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days journey from East...shores of the Atlantic Ocean. And, if we retrench tbe sleeve of the rote, as it i« styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of Africa,"... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 596
...phrase toward the sea, f " Under the last of the Ommiades, the Arabian empire extended two hundred dars journey from East to West, from the confines of Tartary...shores of 'the Atlantic Ocean. And, if we retrench tbe sleeve of tbe rokc, as it is styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of Africa,"... | |
 | John Bayley Sommers Carwithen - 1810 - Počet stránok 352
...independance, and their romantic chivalry into Spain, and established the most absolute authority, from the confines of Tartary and India, to the shores of the Atlantic ocean. It was not true, at a still later period, when, by the arms of the Mogul dynasty, the globe itself... | |
 | John Bayly Sommers Carwithen - 1810 - Počet stránok 384
...independance, and their romantic chivalry into Spain, and established the most absolute authority, from the confines of Tartary and India, to the shores of the Atlantic ocean. It was not true, at a still later period, when, by the arms of the Mogul dynasty, the globe itself... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - Počet stránok 386
...whom the name of liberty was unknown. Under the last of the Ommiades, the Arabian empire extended 20O days journey From east to west, from the confines...Tartary and India to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. The progress of the Mahometan religion diffused over this ample space, a general resemblance of manners... | |
 | John Fry - 1825 - Počet stránok 642
...the eighth century, the caliphs were the most potent and absolute monarchs of the globe. The Arabian empire extended two hundred days' journey from east to west, from the confines of India and Tartary, to the shores of the Atlantic j and if we retrench " the sleeve of the robe," as... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - Počet stránok 546
...caliphs were the most potent and ceL, 1%. absolute monarchs of the globe. Their empire ex- 718. tended two hundred days' journey from east to west, from...Tartary and India to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. But the thirst of conquest They inand the extension of empire still prevailed in the A?^™^ 06 ' breasts... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - Počet stránok 524
...the East it is called "the sleeve of the Arabian robe." Under the last of the Ommiads, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days' journey from east to west, from the confines of India to the waves of the Atlantic. (Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. ix. page 501.)... | |
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Under the last of the Ommiades the Arabian empire extended two hundred days' journey from east to west, from the confines of Tartary and India to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. And if we retrench the sleeve of the robe, as it is styled by their writers,... 
