 Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has 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...  Herodotus - 52. oldalszerző: Herodotus - 1840Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Idumaea - 1799 - 204 oldal
...local ; that the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; and that the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia The independence of the Arabs was proverbial in ancient as well as in modern times ; and the present existence,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 oldal
...the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris i and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve...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 - 1806 - 526 oldal
...are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies: The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks -j- may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction,... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 oldal
...' The body of the nation,' he acknowleges, ' has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey, and Trajan, could never atchieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 oldal
...has escaped 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 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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 oldal
...temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 oldal
...place (*», x^,, 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,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 472 oldal
...Arabs has always been a theme of praise and admiration, from tho remotest ages to the present Upon this subject the following animated apostrophe from...may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride i • reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 oldal
...are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus,, of Pompey and Trajan,...the conquest of Arabia; the present sovereign of the Turks(6) may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 oldal
...alone retained their wild and lawless independence. Gibbon remarks, that ' the arms of Sesostris apd Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia.' And even now that its princes were nominally the vassals of the Persian, it is doubtful whether they... | |
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