| University of Oxford - 1874 - 104 pages
...front, shame and inevitable death were in the rear, of the fugitives. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1874 - 720 pages
...that fatal moment the Janizaries arose, fresh, vigorous, and invincible. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp an}l city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled... | |
| James H. Braund - 1875 - 606 pages
...find in Gibbon's graphic description of the siege of Constantinople, " From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final delticrance... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...and the tide of battle was directed and impelled by his voice and eye. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on...were involved in a cloud of smoke which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire. 12. The immediate loss of Constantinople... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 662 pages
...the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honor. Fro.n the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honor. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honor. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and city, the Greeksand the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance... | |
| Edward Bishop Elliott - 1884 - 408 pages
...how, " as from the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; the camp and city, the Greeks and Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Greek Empire : " — how the walls were rendered... | |
| London readers - 1884 - 216 pages
...human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour. 12. From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance... | |
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