The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. M'Gowan, 1825 |
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Side viii
... Persians , the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot , and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius . Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think , to ...
... Persians , the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot , and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius . Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think , to ...
Side 7
... Persian gulf . He enjoyed the honour of being the first , as he was the last , of the Roman generals who ever na- vigated that remote sea . His fleets ravaged the coasts of Arabia ; and Trajan vainly flattered himself that he was ...
... Persian gulf . He enjoyed the honour of being the first , as he was the last , of the Roman generals who ever na- vigated that remote sea . His fleets ravaged the coasts of Arabia ; and Trajan vainly flattered himself that he was ...
Side 55
... Persian vessels . Notwithstanding the repairs bestowed on that ancient edifice by a king of Cappadocia , it was again fallen to decay . Herod restored its ancient beauty and magnificence . Nor was the liberality of that illustrious ...
... Persian vessels . Notwithstanding the repairs bestowed on that ancient edifice by a king of Cappadocia , it was again fallen to decay . Herod restored its ancient beauty and magnificence . Nor was the liberality of that illustrious ...
Side 96
... Persia was governed by the de- lity of the scendants of Sefi , a race of princes , whose wan- ton cruelty often stained their divan , their table , and their bed , with the blood of their favourites , there is a saying recorded of a ...
... Persia was governed by the de- lity of the scendants of Sefi , a race of princes , whose wan- ton cruelty often stained their divan , their table , and their bed , with the blood of their favourites , there is a saying recorded of a ...
Side 97
... Persian . The monarch's frown , he well knew , could level him with the dust ; but the stroke of lightning or ... Persians . The miserable countries of Georgia and Circassia supply rulers to the greatest part of the east . Chardin says ...
... Persian . The monarch's frown , he well knew , could level him with the dust ; but the stroke of lightning or ... Persians . The miserable countries of Georgia and Circassia supply rulers to the greatest part of the east . Chardin says ...
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