 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...the fortifications, which had stood for ages against hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon : many breaches were opened...For the payment of his feeble and mutinous troops, Constantine was compelled to despoil the churches, with the promise of a fourfold restitution; and... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...worn as bracelets, or amulets. See Gibbon. t Hawkins's Mignot, vol. 1. p. 130. mantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ;* many breaches were opened,...Romanus, four towers had been levelled with the ground. Mahomet, to spur on the ardour of his troops, proclaimed that the spoil of the city should be theirs.... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...worn as bracelets, or amulets. See Gibbon. f Hawkin's Migoot, vol. 1, p. 130. mantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ;* many breaches were opened,...Romanus, four towers had been levelled with the ground. Mahomet, to spur on the ardour of his troops, proclaimed that the spoil of the city should be theirs.... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...Gibbon's Hist. pp. 218, 220. STOOD FOR AGES against hostile violence, WERE DISMANTLED o\ ALL SIDES BY THE OTTOMAN CANNON ; many breaches were opened...four towers had been levelled with the ground"• There is a time and a tide, in the life of man and in the history of nations, which mortals often cannot... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...the fortifications, WHICH HAB STOOD FOR AGES against hostile violence, WERE DISMANTLED ON ALL SIDES BY THE OTTOMAN CANNON; many breaches were opened;...Romanus, four towers had been levelled with the ground."] There is a time and a tide, in the life of man and in the history of nations, which mortals often cannot... | |
 | P A. Beddome - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...The fortifications, which had stood for ages against hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ; many breaches were opened ; and near the gate of St. Ronianus four towers had been levelled with the ground. 725. When did Mahomet issue his final orders?... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...Von Hammer, p. d36. — M. had stood for ages against hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon : many breaches were opened...For the payment of his feeble and mutinous troops, Constantino was compelled to despoil the churches with the promise of a fourfold restitution ; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...; the fortifications which had stood for ages aginst hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ; many breaches were opened ; and near the gate of St. Eomanus, four towers had been levelled with the ground. For the payment of his feeble and mutinous... | |
 | Henry Ottley - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...against hostile violence were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman cannon ; many breaches had been opened ; and, near the gate of St. Romanus, four towers had been levelled with the ground, mining having been employed in addition to other means for their destruction. In face of all these... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...fortifications, which had stood, for ages, against hostile violence, were dismantled, on all sides, by the Ottoman cannon ; many breaches were opened...For the payment of his feeble and mutinous troops, Constantine was compelled to despoil the churches, with the promise of a fourfold restitution ; and... | |
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After a siege of forty days, the fate of Constantinople could no longer be averted. The diminutive garrison was exhausted by a double attack: the fortifications, which had stood for ages against hostile violence, were dismantled on all sides by the Ottoman... 
