 Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation had she indolently permitted the Emperor of the West to approach within a hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles, so similar, in almost every circumstance, that...  Brief Essays and Studies of Character - Side 86av Ethel Irving - 1874 - 176 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 530 sider
...the people seconded the terror of his arms J. Zenobia would have ill deserved her repula- Theemtion, had she indolently permitted the emperor of the West to approach within an hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles ; so similar... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 sider
...heen engaged in the service of the Palmyrenian queen. Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation, had she indolently permitted the emperor of the west to approach within 100 miles of her capital. The fate of the east was decided in two great battles ; so similar in almost... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1840 - 224 sider
...contempt:" yet that the conquest of Zenobia was the object of this expedition, history has left no doubt. The queen of the East would have ill deserved her...precautions as were characteristic of an able general, and a profound stateswoman. A part of her army, therefore, were promptly stationed along the shores of the... | |
 | lady Sydney Morgan - 1840 - 782 sider
...contempt :" yet that the conquest of Zenobia was the object of this expedition, history has left no doubt. The queen of the East would have ill deserved her...forethought, had she indolently permitted the emperor of the 342 WOMEN OF THE EMPIRE. west to approach within a hundred miles of her capital, without taking such... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1853 - 332 sider
...salutary edicts brought .him more quickly to the gates of Emesa, within a hundred miles of Palmyra. The Queen of the East would have ill deserved her...precautions as were characteristic of an able general, and a profound stateswoman. A part of her army, therefore, were promptly stationed along the shores of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 sider
...wishes of the people seconded the terror of his arms.64 Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation, had she indolently permitted the emperor of the West to approach within an defeats the hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was I'tilmyre- ,.-.•.• 11 •... | |
 | William Robson - 1855 - 684 sider
...wishes of the people seconded the terror of his arms. " Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation, had she indolently permitted the emperor of the "West...to approach within a hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles ; so similar in almost every circumstance, that... | |
 | William Robson - 1871 - 802 sider
...wishes of the people seconded the terror of his arms. " Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation, had she indolently permitted the emperor of the West...to approach within a hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles ; so similar in almost every circumstance, that... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 sider
...-wishes of the people seconded the terror of his arms. Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation had she indolently permitted the Emperor of the West...to approach within a hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles, so similar, in almost every circumstance, that... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 sider
...seconded the terror of his arms. 6. Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation had she in- no dolently permitted the Emperor of the West to approach within a hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles, so similar, in almost every circumstance, that... | |
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