| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...zarl£S' " nance be ever bright ! their hand victorious ! their sword '* keen! may their spear always hang over the heads of their " enemies ! and wheresoever they go, may they return with " a white face .'"" Such was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes of the sultans... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...' " countenance be ever bright! their hand victorious! " their sword keen ! may their spear always hang over " the heads of their enemies! and wheresoever they " go, may they return with a while face !" Such was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1829 - 460 pages
...countenances be ever bright ! their hand ever victorious ! their sword keen ! may their spears always hang over the heads of their enemies ! and wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face.' Such was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes of the sultans... | |
| William Pulleyn - London (England) - 1830 - 402 pages
...their countenance be ever light ; their hand victorious ; their sword keen. May their spenrs always hang over the heads of their enemies, and wheresoever they go may they return with a white liter." Such, adds the historian, was the origin of those haughty troops ; the terror of the nation,... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...their countenances be ever bright; their hand victorious; their swords keen; may their spear always hang over the heads of their enemies; and, wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face.' H'-hite and black face are common and proverbial expreeraone of praise and reproach in the Turkish... | |
| James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 622 pages
...their countenance be ever bright, their hands victorious, their swords keen ; may their spears always hang over the heads of their enemies ; and wheresoever they go, may they retara with a white face.' " Such," adds he, " was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...May their countenance be ever bright; their hand victorious; their sword keen. May their epear always hang over the heads of their enemies ; and, wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face. Such was the origin of the janizaries. By the assistance of these troops, Amurath extended lib conquests... | |
| Francis Alexander Durivage - Chronology, Historical - 1835 - 792 pages
...their countenances be ever bright; their hnnd victorious; their swords keen ; may their sjiear always hang over the heads of their enemies ; and, wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face.' tt'liite and black face are common and proverbial expressions of praise and reproach in the Turkish... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...their countenance be ever bright; their hand victorious; their sword keen. May their spear always bang over the heads of their enemies ; and, wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face." Such was the origin of the janizaries. By the assistance of these troo|is, Amurath extended his conquests... | |
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