 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 sider
...lyth of the work) Opens with a dcfcription of Conftantinople, which, from its advantageous pofition, appears to have been formed by nature for the centre and capital of a great monarchy. Situated in the forty-fifft degree of latitude, the Imperial city commanded, from her feven hills, the oppofite fhores... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sider
...sailed through the straits of the Hellespont. We are at present qualified to view the advantageous position of Constantinople; which appears to have...nature, for the centre and capital of a great monarchy. Situate in the forty-first degree of latititude, the imperial city commanded, from her seven hills,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 sider
...through the streights of the Hellespont. We are at p res ent qualified to view the advantagetinopie. ous position of Constantinople ; which appears to have...her seven hills, the opposite shores of Europe and A sia ; the climate was healthy and temperate, the soil fertile, the harbour secure and capacious ;... | |
 | 1830 - 288 sider
...and city from the attack of an hostile nary. We are at present qualified } to view the advantageous position' of Constantinople; which appears to have...centre and capital of a great monarchy. Situated in the forty first degree of latitude, the imperial city commands, from her seven hills, the opposite shores... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 sider
...Temperate. Naval. Prospect. Artificial. Attracted WE are at present qualified to view the advantageous position of Constantinople, which appears to have...great monarchy. Situated in the fortyfirst degree of latitude,1 the imperial city commanded, from her seven hills, the opposite shores of Europe and Asia... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 sider
...natural advantages of the site of the ancient Byzantinm on the banks of the Bosphorus. It commanded the opposite shores of Europe and Asia ; the climate was healthy and temiierate ; the soil fertile ; the harbour secure and capacious ; advantageouslv situated for the... | |
 | 1872 - 450 sider
...port." " The advantages of Constantinople : " " We are at present qualified to view the advantageous position of Constantinople, which appears to have...the centre and capital of a great monarchy. Situated on the 41st degree of latitude, the Imperial City commanded from her seven hills the opposite shores... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1879 - 864 sider
...the Conference at London, May 15, 1871. CCVc. " Constantinople" (says a great historian) "ap" pears to have been formed by nature for the centre and "..." degree of latitude, the imperial city commanded frc.m " her seven hills the opposite shores of Europe and Asia ; " the climate was healthy and temperate,... | |
 | 1880 - 636 sider
...the walls of Constantino, the other four being added afterwards. Gibbon says that ' Constantinople appears to have been formed by nature for the centre and capital of a great monarchy. The imperial city commanded from her seven hills the opposite shores of Europe and Asia ; the climate... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 sider
...could be occasionally drawn across it to guard the port and city from the attack of a hostile navy. 5. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude, the Imperial city commanded, from her seven hills, 1 the opposite shores of Europe and Asia; the climate was healthy and temperate, the soil fertile,... | |
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We are at present qualified to view the advantageous position of Constantinople; which appears to have been formed by nature for the centre and capital of a great monarchy. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude, the Imperial city commanded, from... 
