 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 426 sider
...Tetricus, than he turned his arms against Zenobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equaled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1906 - 438 sider
...Tetricus, than he turned his arms 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 Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 528 sider
...he turned his arms against Zenobia, the character celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor,... | |
 | Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - 1910 - 610 sider
...shrewd in administration. She is perhaps the only woman in the East " whose 30 F 459 ZEPHANIAH ZINC superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia." Zephaniah (zëf-a-nl'a), the ninth in order of the minor Hebrew prophets; was great-greatgrandson... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 406 sider
...his arms against Zenobia, the character celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. ID.",. ia' Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 400 sider
...achievements of Semiramis, Zcnobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East, is perhaps the only woman whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra,... | |
 | Luther S. Luedtke - 1989 - 316 sider
...William Ware and Nathaniel Hawthorne both responded are best encapsulated in Edward Gibbon's account: But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis,...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra,... | |
 | Richard Stoneman - 1992 - 284 sider
...of his successor Diocletian. Gibbon's paean to the queen is a famous purple passage of his history, If we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis,...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra,... | |
 | Deborah Cherry - 2000 - 292 sider
...they had not rendered her base'. Whereas Gibbon's interests in imperial history placed Zenobia among 'several illustrious women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire', Jameson was preoccupied with 'the influence which a female government has had, generally, on men and... | |
 | James Hastings - 2004 - 512 sider
...with the title of ' Queen of Palmyra and the East." Of this remarkable personage Gibbon says : 'Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who...of such distinguished characters. But if we except tindoubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only woman whose superior genius broke... | |
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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... 
