 | Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family and treasures, escaped to the Median hills. Each chamber of the palace, revealed to the enemy a new treasure, secreted with art... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family...of Omar, passed the Tigris without opposition ; the cap204 ital was taken by assault ; and the disorderly resistance of the people gave a keener edge to... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family...of Omar, passed the Tigris without opposition ; the cap* I-ffit. of Decline ind Fall, VoL ir. p. 360, 361, 904 ital was taken by assault ; and the disorderly... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...passed the Tigris without opposition ; the cap« Hist, of Decline and Fall, Vol. ix. p. 360, 361. ital was taken by assault ; and the disorderly resistance...gave a keener edge to the sabres of the Moslems."* Let us next consider the effects of the same impolitic security in the case of the rival empire of... | |
 | Robert Mignan - Babylonia - 1829 - 386 pages
...took place in VALUABLE SPOILS. 75 the AD 637. " The capital was taken by assault, and the tumultuous resistance of the people gave a keener edge to the...with religious transport, ' This is the white Palace of Chosroes ! this is the promise of the Apostle of God !' The poor robbers of the Desert were suddenly... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...representation of facts, he had been aspiring to rival Volney as an illustrator of Scripture prophecy. " The capital was taken by assault; and the disorderly...with religious transport, ' This is the white palace of Chosroes; this is the promise of the apostle of God.' The naked robbers of the desert were suddenly... | |
 | Guillaume Monod - 1838 - 244 pages
...last day of their religioti and empirewas at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice; and the king, with a part of his family...Median hills. In the third month after the battle (637), Said the lieutenant of Omar, passed the Tigris wi thout opposi tion ; the capital was taken... | |
 | Egypt - 1841 - 214 pages
...sword is upon her treasures," took place when the Mohammedan, Omar, destroyed Ctesi}hon. This city was taken by assault, and the disorderly resistance...shouted with religious transport, " This is the white jalace of Chosroes ; this is the promise of the apostle of God." These naked robbers were suddenly... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...those walls, which had resisted the battering rams of the Romans, yielded to the darts of the Saracens. Said, the lieutenant of Omar, passed the Tigris without...resistance of the people gave a keener edge to the sabre of the Moslems, who shouted in religious transport, " This is the white palace of Chosroes :... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1844 - 372 pages
...sword is upon her treasures," took place when the Mohammedan, Omar, destroyed Ctesiphon. This city was taken by assault, and the disorderly resistance...with religious transport, " This is the white palace of the Chosroes ; this is the promise of the apostle of God." These naked robbers were suddenly enriched... | |
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Persians were overcome by the belief, that the last day of their religion and empire was at hand ; the strongest posts were abandoned by treachery or cowardice ; and the king, with a part of his family and treasures, escaped to Holwan at the foot of the... 
