 | Edward Gibbon - 1862 - 458 sider
...turned his arms against Zenobia, the 4.0.272. celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. Modern zenoMa; Europe has produced several illustrious women who...Pollio in Hist. August. p. 196. [xxx. Tyranni, c. 23.] Vopiscus in Hist. August. p. 220. [Aure1. c. 32.] The two Victors, in the lives of Gallienus and Aurelian.... | |
 | Michael Joseph M'Cann - 206 sider
...was invited as a guest by the British, and detained as a prisoner. CHARACTER OF ZENOBIA. — Modem Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...Zenobia is, perhaps, the only female whose superior genins broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra,... | |
 | William Robson - 1871 - 802 sider
...glory. " Modern Europe has produced several women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire ; 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,... | |
 | Ethel Irving - 1874 - 202 sider
...the doubtful achievements of Semiramis be excepted,' says Gibbon, 'Zenobia perhaps was the only woman whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate, the manners, and the institutions of Asia.' "To a mind whose resources assisted to raise her husband... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 sider
...and the East. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory trie weight of empire, nor is our own age destitute of...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,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 496 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 Zenabia is perhaps the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 510 sider
...Tctricus, than ho 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 fenins broke through the servile indolence imposed... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 834 sider
...his arms against Zenobia, the celebrated Queen of Palmyra and the East. Modern Europe has prodnced several illustrious women who have sustained with...age destitute of such distinguished characters. But Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 494 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 have sustained with glory the weight of empirej nor is our own age destitute of such distinguished characters. But Zenobia is perhaps the only... | |
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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... 
