 Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire, nor is our own age destitute of such distinguished characters. But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is, perhaps, the only...  Palmyra: And Other Poems - Side 36av Thomas Love Peacock - 1806 - 141 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 530 sider
...than he turned his arms ofZeno- against Zenobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...age destitute of such distinguished characters. But if we except the doubtful atehievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior... | |
 | 1809 - 562 sider
...esteem so dissolute a sovereign, nor is it easy to conceal a just contempt. Gibbon, vol. II. .5. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who have sustained with glory the weight of empire; 720?' is our own age destitute of such distinguished characters. Ib. 32. This treacherous calm was... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 sider
...esteem so dissolute a sovereign, nor is it easy to conceal a just contempt. Gibbon, vol. II. 5. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...own age destitute of such distinguished characters. Ib. 32. This treacherous calm was of short duf ration; nor could t'he Christians of the East place... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 sider
...esteem so dissolute a sovereign, nor is it easy to conceal a just contempt. Gibbon, vol. II. 5. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...sustained with glory the weight of empire; nor is oar own age destitute of such distinguished characters. Ib. 32. This treacherous calm was of short... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 sider
...he turned his arms against Ze-^™' nobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. bia; Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who...weight of empire ; nor is our own age destitute of such distinguishso Pollio in Hist. August. p. 196. Vopisctis in Hist. August. p. 220. The two Victors, in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...and the East. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory tile weight of empire ; nor is our own age destitute of such distinguished cha^ racters. But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only... | |
 | 1839 - 656 sider
...Zenobia herself, of whom Gibbon gives the following (for him at least) glowing description : "Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...age destitute of such distinguished characters. But, if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is, perhaps, the ouly female, whose superior... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 sider
...celebrated queen of Palmyra and the east. Modern Europe had produced several illustrious women who hare sustained with glory the weight of empire ; nor is...age destitute of such distinguished characters. But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior... | |
 | P A. Beddome - 1844 - 280 sider
...that defied the Roman sway? Palmyra and the East, in the person of their sovereign, Zenobia. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...age destitute of such distinguished characters. But, if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only woman whose superior... | |
 | 1865 - 838 sider
...her no more than justice in the remark that, " if we except the doubtful achievements of Setniramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior...servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate arid manners of Asia." Disdaining to submit to the effeminate usages sanctioned by her rank and country,... | |
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