| 1865 - 632 pages
...Sophia. The available space is calculated to be capable of containing 30,000 persons. In the course of an hour the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...weakness could be productive of strength, or in the vain hope, that amid the crowd each individual might be safe and invisible. From every part of the capital, they flowed into the church of St. Sophia: CHAP. in the space of an hour, the sanctuary, the choir, the ——___ nave, the upper and lower galleries,... | |
| William Brockedon - 1833 - 462 pages
...inhabitants, " from every part of the capital, flowed into the church of St. Sophia. In the space of one hour, the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins."... | |
| William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 pages
...inhabitants, " from every part of the capital, flowed into the church of St. Sophia. In the space of one hour, the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins."... | |
| William Brockedon - 1833 - 308 pages
...the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins." The fane of St. Sophia was violated, as well as that of every other temple in which the wretched Greeks... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 pages
...flocked together in the streets like a herd of timid animals. From every part of the city they rushed into the church of St. Sophia. In the space of an...choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were all filled with a multitude of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 pages
...weakness could be productive of strength, or in the vain hope, that amid the crowd each individual might be safe and invisible. From every part of the capital,...the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 pages
...weakness could be productive of strength, or in the vain hope, that, amid the crowd, each individual might be safe and invisible. From every part of the capital...the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins... | |
| 1853 - 454 pages
...news of the assault, a crowd had filled the Church of St. Sophia. When, the Turks entered the city, the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were thronged to excess by ladies, children, husbands, and fathers, and the doors barred, in the foolish... | |
| 1855 - 664 pages
...inhabitants flocked from every part of the city to the great church of St. Sophia. " In the space of au hour the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins."... | |
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