 ... thereof, nothing more magnificent and glorious; if the power and strength thereof, nothing more dreadful or dangerous; which wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant M2 wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the...  Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 - Page 164by Richard Robert Madden - 1829 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Thornton - Turkey - 1807 - 484 pages
...dreadful or dangerous ;. which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn."* Busbequius, ambassador from the emperor Alarm of ' ChristeuFerdinand the First, had before been aware of the danger... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - Turkey - 1809 - 520 pages
...dreadful or dangerous; which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn*." Busbequius, ambassador dom' from the emperor Ferdinand the First, had before been aware of the danger which threatened... | |
 | Samuel Gridley Howe - Greece - 1828 - 474 pages
...a;iil dangerous; which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn."* But since that event, the power of Turkey has declined more rapidly than it ever rose, till it is now... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1828 - 760 pages
...dreadful and dangerous; which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn." Nor had this mighty power even then reached its greatest height. Solyman was succeeded by other able... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1862 - 528 pages
...dreadful or dangerous; which wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn." Busbequiius shortly after described the Turks as " trampling on the mangled bodies of hostile sovereigns... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1866 - 538 pages
...dreadful and dangerous ; which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itself, and drunk with the pleasant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in scorn.' Ñor liad this — , , , — , , mighty power even then reached its greatest gradation. Under this... | |
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