 | Francis Lieber - Battles - 1862 - 436 pages
...victorious troops. " The city and the buildings," said Mohammed, " are mine ; but I resign to your valor the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty ; be rich, and be happy. - Many are the provinces of my empire : the intrepid soldier, who first ascends the walls of Constantinople,... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pages
...A double pay was promised to the victorious troops ; ' The city and the buildings,' said Mahomet, ' are mine, but I resign to your valour the captives and the spoil.' Such potent motives diffused among the Turks a general ardour, regardless of life and impatient for... | |
 | Edward Turney - 1872 - 132 pages
...their attack with great vigour. Addressing his troops, " The city and the buildings," said Mahomet, " are mine ; but I resign to your valour the captives...treasures of gold and beauty ; be rich and be happy." The camp re-echoed with the Moslem shouts of "God is God, there is but one God, (thus cried they in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1880 - 662 pages
...victorious troops: " The oity and the buildings," said Mahomet, "are mine ; but I resign to your valor the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty ; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire : the intrepid soldier who firsi ascends the walls of Constantinople... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...A 'double pay was promised to the victorious troops. " The city and the buildings," said Mahomet, " are mine, but I resign to your valour the captives and the spoil: be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire; the intrepid soldier who first ascends the... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...A double pay was promised to the victorious troops. ' The city and the buildings,1 said Mahomet, ' are mine ; but I resign to your valour the captives...treasures of gold and beauty ; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire ; the intrepid soldier who first ascends the walls of Constantinople... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 pages
...A double pay was promised to the victorious troops. " The city and the buildings," said Mahomet, " are mine, but I resign to your valour the captives...treasures of gold and beauty ; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire : the intrepid* soldier who first ascends the walls of Constantinople... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1888 - 456 pages
...victorious troops. " The city and the buildings," said Mohammed, " are mine; but I resign to your valor the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire; the intrepid soldier who first ascends the walls of Constantinople... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1893 - 460 pages
...victorious troops. " The city and the buildings," said Mohammed, " are mine; but I resign to your valor the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire; the intrepid soldier who first ascends the walls of Constantinople... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...victorious troops. "The city and the buildings," said Mohammed, "are mine; but I resign to your valor the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire ; the intrepid soldier who first ascends the walls of Constantinople... | |
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The city and the buildings," said Mahomet, "are mine; but I resign to your valour the captives and the spoil, the treasures of gold and beauty; be rich and be happy. Many are the provinces of my empire: the intrepid soldier who first ascends the walls... 
