 | John Whitaker - 1791 - 276 pages
...I have long fince aflerted my claim,' he fays on preparing to wander away with the Tartars above, ' to introduce the nations, the immediate ' or remote authors of the fall of the Roman em' pire ; nor can I refufe myfelf to thoie events/ the conquefts of the Tartars, ' which, from their... | |
 | 1803 - 400 pages
...forth myriads of men, whose rapid conquests, to use the words of an elegant and profound historian, may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe." The first establishment of a standing army in Rusjia U thus described : " A body of troops regularly... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...founded on a previous knowledge of the great eruptions of the Moguls and Tartars ; whose rapid progress may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe.* — The Moguls subduedalmost all Asia, and a large portion of Europe.-)-— They spread beyond the... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pages
...founded on a previous knowledge of the great eruptions of the Moguls and Tartars ; whose rapid progress may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe.* — The Moguls subdued almost all Asia, and a large portion ot'Europe.f — They spread beyond the... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...a previous knowledge of the great eruptions of the Moguls and Tartars ; whose rapid progress may he compared with the primitive convulsions of nature,...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe.* — The Moguls subdued almost all Asia,and alarge portion of Europe.-)- — They spread beyond the... | |
 | Barbara Anne Simon, Barbara Allan Simon - 1836 - 420 pages
...the truth of the remark of the eloquent Gibbon, that the rapid conquests of the Moguls and Tartars, may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe.' Josephus, the Historian, makes mention of the Ten Tribes as then being ' somewhere beyond the Euphrates;'... | |
 | Barbara Anne Simon, Barbara Allan Simon - 1836 - 422 pages
...the truth of the remark of the eloquent Gibbon, that the rapid conquests of the Moguls and Tartars, may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe.' Josephus, the Historian, makes mention of the Ten Tribes as then being ' somewhere beyond the Euphrates... | |
 | 1853 - 654 pages
...scourge the nations. The Mongols, " whose 0 Miss. Quide-Book, pp. 71-78. rapid conquests," says Gibbon, " may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe," now quietly piteh their tents near the sources of the Amour, the Hoang-Ho, and the Indus, or beneath... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1841 - 1052 pages
...We come now to the true Mongols, — to the race " whose rapid conquests," as Gibbon expresses it, " may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...have agitated and altered the surface of the globe." They extend westward from the longitude of Pekin, or about 116°, to the Sea of Aral, a sweep of at... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1843 - 586 pages
...masters. We come now to the true Mongole — to the race " whose rapid conquest*," as Gibbon expresses it, "may be compared with the primitive convulsions of...which have agitated and altered the surface of the glotte." They extend westward from the longitude of Pékin, or about 110°, to the eea of Aral, a sweep... | |
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I have long since asserted my claim to introduce the nations, the immediate or remote authors of the fall of the Roman empire ; nor can I refuse myself to those events which, from their uncommon magnitude, will interest a philosophic mind in the history... 
