 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - Počet stránok 484
...last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family and treasures, escaped to the Median hills. Each chamber of the palace, revealed to the enemy a new treasure, secreted with art... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 596
...last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family...of Omar, passed the Tigris without opposition ; the cap204 ital was taken by assault ; and the disorderly resistance of the people gave a keener edge to... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 304
...last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family...of Omar, passed the Tigris without opposition ; the cap* I-ffit. of Decline ind Fall, VoL ir. p. 360, 361, 904 ital was taken by assault ; and the disorderly... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 592
...passed the Tigris without opposition ; the cap« Hist, of Decline and Fall, Vol. ix. p. 360, 361. ital was taken by assault ; and the disorderly resistance...gave a keener edge to the sabres of the Moslems."* Let us next consider the effects of the same impolitic security in the case of the rival empire of... | |
 | Robert Mignan - 1829 - Počet stránok 386
...took place in VALUABLE SPOILS. 75 the AD 637. " The capital was taken by assault, and the tumultuous resistance of the people gave a keener edge to the...with religious transport, ' This is the white Palace of Chosroes ! this is the promise of the Apostle of God !' The poor robbers of the Desert were suddenly... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - Počet stránok 464
...representation of facts, he had been aspiring to rival Volney as an illustrator of Scripture prophecy. " The capital was taken by assault; and the disorderly...with religious transport, ' This is the white palace of Chosroes; this is the promise of the apostle of God.' The naked robbers of the desert were suddenly... | |
 | Guillaume Monod - 1838 - Počet stránok 244
...last day of their religioti and empirewas at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice; and the king, with a part of his family...Median hills. In the third month after the battle (637), Said the lieutenant of Omar, passed the Tigris wi thout opposi tion ; the capital was taken... | |
 | 1841 - Počet stránok 214
...sword is upon her treasures," took place when the Mohammedan, Omar, destroyed Ctesi}hon. This city was taken by assault, and the disorderly resistance...shouted with religious transport, " This is the white jalace of Chosroes ; this is the promise of the apostle of God." These naked robbers were suddenly... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - Počet stránok 370
...those walls, which had resisted the battering rams of the Romans, yielded to the darts of the Saracens. Said, the lieutenant of Omar, passed the Tigris without...resistance of the people gave a keener edge to the sabre of the Moslems, who shouted in religious transport, " This is the white palace of Chosroes :... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1844 - Počet stránok 372
...sword is upon her treasures," took place when the Mohammedan, Omar, destroyed Ctesiphon. This city was taken by assault, and the disorderly resistance...with religious transport, " This is the white palace of the Chosroes ; this is the promise of the apostle of God." These naked robbers were suddenly enriched... | |
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Persians were overcome by the belief, that the last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family and treasures, escaped to Holwan at the foot of the... 
