 ... city commanded, from her seven hills, the opposite shores of Europe and Asia ; the climate was healthy and temperate, the soil fertile, the harbour secure and capacious ; and the approach on the side of the continent was of small extent and easy defence....  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Side 21av Edward Gibbon - 1900Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 436 sider
...Bosphorus and the Hellespont may1 be. considered as the two gates of Constantinople ; -and the vprmce who possessed those important passages could always...to the fleets of commerce. The preservation of the Astern provinces may,' in some degree, be ascribed. to the policy of Goftstantine, ate the Barbarians... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sider
...small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gatei of Constantinople ; and the prince, who possessed...degree, be ascribed to the policy of Constantine, as the harharians of Jhe Euxinc, who, in the proceeding age, had poured" their armaments into the heart of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 432 sider
...on the side of the continent was a small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople ; and the prince who possessed those ina portant passages could always shut them against a naval enemy, and open them to the fleets of commerce.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 520 sider
...on the side of the continent was of small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople...may, in some degree, be ascribed to the policy of Con" Strabo, lib. 13. p. 595. The disposition of the ships, which were drawn upon dry land, and the... | |
 | 1830 - 288 sider
...on the side of the continent, is of small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople;...always shut them against a naval enemy, and open them te the fleets of commerce. The preservation o£ the eastern provinces may, in some- degree, be ascribed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...on the side of the continent was of small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople...possessed those important passages could "always shut them tint of the Peniam, and afterwards of the Greek*, was Interested to magnify the armament and the victory,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 618 sider
...on the side of the continent was of small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople...barbarians of the Euxine, who in the preceding age had 80 Strabo, 1. xiii. p. 595, [890, edit. Casaub.] The disposition of the ships, which were drawn upon... | |
 | 1865 - 648 sider
...gateways, the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, the prince who shall possess these important passages can always shut them against a naval enemy and open them to the fleets of commerce." (Gibbon, chap, xvii.) One can scarcely behold it and not feel, in the language of a more recent historian,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1867 - 744 sider
...on the side of the continent was of small extent and easy defence. The Bosporus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople,...against a naval enemy and open them to the fleets of comAD 330. EXTENT OF THE CITY. 129 merce. The preservation of the eastern provinces may, in some degree,... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 sider
...supremacy, which was due to her age, to her dignity, and to the remembrance of her former greatness. " The preservation of the eastern provinces may in some degree be ascribed to the policy of Constantino, as the barbarians of the Euxine, who in the preceding age had poured their armaments into... | |
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