The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 8John Murray, 1903 |
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Side 28
... walls and cities of the provinces ; the dismantled places were occupied by the Turks ; and Gallipoli , the key of the Hellespont , was rebuilt and repeopled by the policy of Soliman . The abdication of Cantacuzene dissolved the feeble ...
... walls and cities of the provinces ; the dismantled places were occupied by the Turks ; and Gallipoli , the key of the Hellespont , was rebuilt and repeopled by the policy of Soliman . The abdication of Cantacuzene dissolved the feeble ...
Side 36
... walls was ceded to the blind princes , who fixed their residence at Rhodosto and Selymbria . In the tranquil slumber of royalty the passions of John Palæologus survived his reason and his strength : he deprived his favourite and heir of ...
... walls was ceded to the blind princes , who fixed their residence at Rhodosto and Selymbria . In the tranquil slumber of royalty the passions of John Palæologus survived his reason and his strength : he deprived his favourite and heir of ...
Side 44
... walls of Shiraz , he broke , with three or four thousand soldiers , the coul or main - body of thirty thousand horse , where the emperor fought in person . No more than fourteen or fifteen guards remained near the standard of Timour ...
... walls of Shiraz , he broke , with three or four thousand soldiers , the coul or main - body of thirty thousand horse , where the emperor fought in person . No more than fourteen or fifteen guards remained near the standard of Timour ...
Side 50
... walls of Tauris and " Sultania . " The ungovernable rage of the sultan at length betrayed him to an insult of a more domestic kind . " If I fly from thy arms , " said he , " may my wives be thrice divorced from my bed : but if thou ...
... walls of Tauris and " Sultania . " The ungovernable rage of the sultan at length betrayed him to an insult of a more domestic kind . " If I fly from thy arms , " said he , " may my wives be thrice divorced from my bed : but if thou ...
Side 52
... walls ; and Timour consented to raise the siege , if they would adorn his retreat with a gift or ransom ; each article of nine pieces . But no sooner had he introduced himself into the city , under colour of a truce , than 66 Damascus ...
... walls ; and Timour consented to raise the siege , if they would adorn his retreat with a gift or ransom ; each article of nine pieces . But no sooner had he introduced himself into the city , under colour of a truce , than 66 Damascus ...
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