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" Let them be called Janizaries, (Yengi cheri, or new soldiers;) may their 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... "
Travels in Germany and Russia: Including a Steam Voyage by the Danube and ... - Page 244
by Sir Adolphus Slade - 1840 - 512 pages
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7

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...
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Volume 5

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...
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Constantinople in 1828: A Residence of Sixteen Months in the ..., Volume 1

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...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 7

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 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.' White and black fact are common and proverbial expressions of praise and reproach in the Turkish language....
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The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions ...

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,...
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Encyclopędia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

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...
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A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical ..., Volume 2

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...
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Encyclopędia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

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...
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A Popular Cyclopedia of History: Ancient and Modern, Forming a Copious ...

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...
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Encyclopędia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

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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