The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, Or, The Geography, History and Antiquities of the Sassanian Or New Persian EmpireLongmans, Green, 1876 - 691 pàgines |
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Pàgina 339 - are collected from the personal experience and free conversation of a soldier, a statesman, and a traveller; his style continually aspires, and often attains, to the merit of strength and elegance; his reflections, more especially in the speeches, which he too frequently inserts, contain a
Pàgina 534 - Mahomet displayed his banner at the head of ten thousand horse and twenty thousand foot' (Gibbon, p. 258). Dr. Smith remarks that ' thirty thousand is the lowest number assigned;' but he adds that' a large part deserted at the commencement of the march
Pàgina 496 - The glitter of the Persian arms was to be seen at any moment, if he looked from his palace windows across the Bosphorus. No prospect of assistance or relief appeared from any quarter. The empire was ' reduced to the walls of Constantinople, with the remnant of Greece, Italy, and Africa, and some maritime cities, from Tyre to Trebizond, of the Asiatic coast.
Pàgina 108 - choice but to encounter him on the ground which he had chosen. Now, though Western Mesopotamia is illdescribed as ' a smooth and barren surface of sandy desert, without a hillock, without a tree, and without a spring of fresh water,
Pàgina 210 - He would, it is suggested, have been willing ' to purchase, with one half of his kingdom, the safety of the remainder, and would have gladly subscribed himself, in a treaty of peace, the faithful and dependent ally of the
Pàgina 339 - fund of political knowledge; and the historian, excited by the generous ambition of pleasing and instructing posterity, appears to disdain the prejudices of the people and the flattery of courts.' The first question which Kobad had to decide, when, by the voluntary cession of his brother, Zamasp, he remounted his throne, was the attitude which he should assume towards Mazdak and his followers. By openly
Pàgina 498 - Heraclius boldly ascended the heights of Mount Taurus, directed his march through the plains of Cappadocia, and established his troops for the winter in safe and plentiful quarters on the banks of the river
Pàgina 256 - It is not altogether easy to understand how this could have been. Not only do the Roman writers mention no war between the Romans and Persians at this time, but they expressly declare that the East remained in profound repose during the entire reign of Varahran, and that Rome and Persia continued to be friends.