 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1806 - 168 pages
...Tetricus, than he turned his arms against Zenobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the East. Modem Europe has produced several illustrious women who...age destitute of such distinguished characters. But Zenobia is perhaps the only female, whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...relish for the pleasures of retirement. . Zeaobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra and the Bast, a female whose superior genius broke through the servile...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia, the most lovely as well as the most heroic of her sex, who spread the terror of her arms over... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pages
...esteem so dissolute a sovereign, nor is it easy to conceal a just contempt. Gibbon, vol. II. .5. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who have sustained with glory the weight of empire; 720?' is our own age destitute of such distinguished characters. Ib. 32. This treacherous calm was... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...esteem so dissolute a sovereign, nor is it easy to conceal a just contempt. Gibbon, vol. II. 5. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...own age destitute of such distinguished characters. Ib. 32. This treacherous calm was of short duf ration; nor could t'he Christians of the East place... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...esteem so dissolute a sovereign, nor is it easy to conceal a just contempt. Gibbon, vol. II. 5. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...sustained with glory the weight of empire; nor is oar own age destitute of such distinguished characters. Ib. 32. This treacherous calm was of short... | |
 | 1827 - 654 pages
...repeat of her internal administration what Gibbon says of Zenobia, in his masterly sketch of that " the only female whose superior genius broke through...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia." In lieu of the little passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the soundest maxims... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 288 pages
...may repeat of her internal administration what Gibbon says of Zenobia, in his masterly sketch of that "the only female whose superior genius broke through...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia." In lieu of the little passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the soundest maxims... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 284 pages
...may repeat of her internal administration what Gibbon says of Zenobia, in his masterly sketch of that "the only female whose superior genius broke through...indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia." In lieu of the little passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the soundest maxims... | |
 | 1839 - 656 pages
...Zenobia herself, of whom Gibbon gives the following (for him at least) glowing description : "Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is, perhaps, the ouly female, whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex, by the climate... | |
 | P A. Beddome - 1844 - 280 pages
...that defied the Roman sway? Palmyra and the East, in the person of their sovereign, Zenobia. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women, who...achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only woman whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and... | |
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But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is, perhaps, the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. 
