Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack. Herodotus - Page 153by Herodotus - 1830Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...the yoke of the most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris i and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present...exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is rec'miis degit (Plin. Hist. Nat. vi. 32). See Sale1s Koran, Sural cvi. p. 503. Pocock, Specimen, p.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...Pompey and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks f may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride...provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs. Many ages before Mahomet, 201.... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey, and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of...jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friend44 Vol. IX. p. 236. ship of a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack45.'... | |
| Elijah Parish - Geography - 1810 - 410 pages
...The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Csesar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved the conquest of Arabia. The present sovereign of the...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. Their domestic feucure suspended on the approach of a common enemy ; and in their last hostilities... | |
| Elijah Parish - Bible - 1813 - 558 pages
...The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Caesar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved the conquest of Arabia. The present sovereign of the...is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. Their domestic fueds, are suspended on the approach of a common enemy; and in their last hostilities,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Poinpey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present...the Turks" may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, ciniis degit (Plin. Hist. Nat. vi. 32). See Sale's Koran, Sural, cvi. p. 503. Puciick. Specimen, p.... | |
| David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...Niebuhr, p. 298, 299, Stc. and from Browne's Trav. p. 446, &c. Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present...provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs. The patience and active virtues... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 528 pages
...escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks* may exercise a shadow ofj jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people, whom it is dangerous... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...Mr. Gibbon, includes all that need be said. " The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia. The present...provoke, and fruitless to attack. The obvious causes of their freedom are inscribed on the character and country of the Arabs ; the patient and active virtues... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 540 pages
...Pagus Albus Hawara) in the territory of Medina. (b'A™vilie Z'ot^far'^^^^^^^ ' r of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia; the present sovereign of the Turks b may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people,... | |
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