| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1781 - 392 pages
...quotannis Militat excidium ; converfoque ordine Fati Torrida Caucafeos infert mini Bycfa furor««^ or engaged any regular troops in the open field. But the celerity of their motions enabled them, almoft at the fame time, to threaten and to attack the moft diftant objects, which attracted their... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1783 - 438 pages
...of the Nile. As they were more ambitious of fpoil than of glory, they feidom attacked any fortified cities, or engaged any regular troops in the open...field. But the celerity of their motions enabled them, alrrioft at the fame time, to threaten an,d to. attack the moft diftant objects, which at-, traded... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 448 pages
...Nile. As they were more ambitious of spoil than of glory, they seldom attacked any fortified ciiies, or engaged any regular troops in the open field. But...threaten and to attack the most distant objects, which atiraQted. their desires ; and as they always embarked a sufficient number of horses, they had no sooner... | |
| John Fry - Church history - 1825 - 642 pages
...port of Carthage, and Genseric himself, even in his advanced age, still commanded the expeditions. " The celerity of their motions enabled them almost...attack the most distant objects which attracted their desire ; and as they always embarked a sufficient number of horses, they had no sooner landed than... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...of the Nile. As they were more ambitious of spoil than of glory, they seldom attacked any fortified cities, or engaged any regular troops in the open...number of horses, they had no sooner landed, than they swept the dismayed country with a body of light cavalry. Yet, notwithstanding the example of their... | |
| George Wilson Bridges - Jamaica - 1828 - 530 pages
...they were more ambitious of spoil than glory, they seldom attacked any fortified towns, or engaged in the open field ; but the celerity of their motions...enabled them, almost at the same time, to threaten and assault the most distant objects which attracted their desires ; and by a secure but laborious navigation,... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1828 - 484 pages
...sovereignty. As they were more ambitious of spoil than of glory, they seldom attacked any fortified cities, or engaged any regular troops in the open field: but the celerity of their motions enabled tliem, almost at the same time, to threaten and to attack the most distant objects which attracted... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 468 pages
...of glory, they seldom attacked any fortified cities, or engaged any regular troops in the open Held. But the celerity of their motions enabled them, almost...threaten and to attack the most distant objects, which atrracted their desires ; and as they always embarked a sufficient number of horses, they had no sooner... | |
| Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 368 pages
...rivers and fountains of waters ; " the celerity of their motions," adds the historian, " enabling them at the same time to threaten and to attack the most...number of horses, they had no sooner landed than they swept the dismayed country with a body of light cavalry." But this portentous star was only to make... | |
| Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 376 pages
...rivers and fountains of waters ; " the celerity of their motions," adds the historian, " enabling them at the same time to threaten and to attack the most...number of horses, they had no sooner landed than they swept the dismayed country with a body of light cavalry." But this portentous star was only to make... | |
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