 | 1832 - 852 էջ
...ascribed to the use of artillery. "Among the implements of destruction," (I still cite Gibbon), " he studied with peculiar care the recent and tremendous...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world." (Gib. chap. Ixviii.) By it he was enabled, to batter down those walls which had defied all former attacks... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 էջ
...the night. The great Among the implements of destruction, he studied with Mahomet P«cul'ar care tne recent and tremendous discovery of the Latins ; and...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A founder of cannon, a Dane or Hungarian, who had been almost starved in the Greek service, deserted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 էջ
...and prov-od the 'lucubrations of the night. Among the implements of destruction, he studied The great with peculiar care the recent and tremendous discovery...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A founder of cannon, a Dane or Hungarian, who had been almost starved in the Greek service, deserted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 էջ
...lucubrations of the night. The threat Among the implements of destruction, he studied with cambín of peculiar care the recent and tremendous discovery...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A founder of cannon, a Dane or Hungarian, who had heen almost starved in the Greek service, deserted... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 էջ
...sultan's attack of Constantinople, Mr. Gibbon observes : — " Among the implements of destruction, he studied, with peculiar care, the recent and tremendous...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world." " The great cannon of Mahomet has been separately an important and visible object in the history of the times.... | |
 | John Fry - 1825 - 642 էջ
...1451. By the arms of this sovereign Constantinople fell. " Among the instruments of destruction, he studied, with peculiar care, the recent and tremendous...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world." " This thundering artillery," pointed against the walls and towers which had been erected only to resist... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 էջ
...destruction, he studied The great with peculiar care the recent and tremendous dis- Mahomet. covery of the Latins; and his artillery surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A founder of cannon, a Dane or Hungarian, who had been almost starved in the Greek service, deserted... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1829 - 484 էջ
...he thus details the preparations of the Turkish sultan : " Among the implements of destruction, he studied with peculiar care the recent and tremendous...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world." The agreement of the prophecy concerning the Euphratean horsemen with the rise of the Turkish power, is... | |
 | 1832 - 280 էջ
...confirms this inteipre'tation. "Among the implements of destruction," says Mr. Gibbon, " he (Mohammed II.) studied with peculiar care the recent and tremendous...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world." " The Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides, and the camp and city, the Greeks and Turks, were involved... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 էջ
...the brimstone which issued out oj their mouths. Verse 18. " Among the implements of destruction, he studied with peculiar care the recent and tremendous...surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A founder of cannon, a Dane or Hungarian, who had been almost starved in the Greek service, deserted... | |
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Among the implements of destruction, he studied with peculiar care the recent and tremendous discovery of the .Latins; and his artillery" surpassed whatever had yet appeared in the world. A founder of cannon, a Dane or Hungarian, who had been almost starved... 
