 | 1788 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...order or command ; of the feeblenefs of age or chiUhood, of peafants and vagrants, and of all tvho had joined the camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. The cerumen irapulfe drove them onwards to the wall : the moil audacious to climb were inO.mtly precipitated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack*....the camp in the blind hope of plunder and martyrdom. * Besides the 10,000 guards, anil the sailors and marines, Ducas numbers in this general assault 250,000... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack....martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack....martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack....martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...the city by sea and land; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack....wall ; the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart or a bullet of the Christians was idly wasted on the accumulated throng.... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack....and of all who had joined the camp in the blind hope ofplunder and martyrdom. The common impulse drove them onwards to the wall : the most audacious to... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and con* Gibbon's Hist. vol. xii. p. 213. tinuity of their line of attack. The foremost ranks consisted...without order or command ; of the feebleness of age or cluldhood, of peasants and vagrants, and of all who had joined the camp in the blind hope of plunder... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack....wall ; the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart or bullet of the Christians was idly wasted on the accumulating throng.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack.57 The foremost ranks consisted of the refuse of the host, a voluntary crowd "* This abasement, which devotion has sometimes extorted from dying princes, is an improvement of the... | |
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At daybreak, without the customary signal of the morning gun, the Turks assaulted the city by sea and land ; and the similitude of a twined or twisted thread has been applied to the closeness and continuity of their line of attack. The foremost ranks... 
