 | Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 470 pages
...towers and cities into the air (41). A circumftance that diftinguifties the liege of Conftantinople, is the re-union of the ancient and modern artillery....were interming.led with the mechanical engines for cafting (tones and darts ; the bullet and the batteringram were dire&ed againft the fame walls ; nor... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...gunpowder, and blowing whole towers and cities into the air.41 A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople, is the re-Union of the ancient...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers : this portable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 pages
...mines with gunpowder appears in 1+80,. siege of Constantinople, is the re-union of the an- CHAP. cient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on, rollers ; this portable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 564 pages
...is the re-union of the an- CHAP. cient and modem artillery. The cannon were in- ^xt '• termingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers ; this portable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...gunpowder, and blowing whole towers and cities into the air4'. A circumstance that distinguishes the eiege of Constantinople, is the re-union of the ancient...battering-ram were directed against the same walls; nor liad the discovery of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and (inextinguishable fire. A wooden... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 458 pages
...cities into the air." A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople, is thereunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers : this portable... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1823 - 336 pages
...fortune of the day. Note 19. From the Greek fire shoots up, SfC. " A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the re-union of the ancient and modern artillery. The bullet and the battering-ram were directed against the same wall; nor had the discovery of gunpowder... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...gunpowder, and blowing whole towers and cities into the air. A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople, is the reunion of the ancient...and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled CHAP. with the mechanical engines for casting stones and ' darts; the bullet and the battering-ram... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 492 pages
...siege of Constantinople, is the re- c HA P. union of the ancient and modern artillery. The can- LXV non were intermingled with the mechanical engines for...of gunpowder superseded the use of the liquid and unextinguishable fire. A wooden turret of the largest size was advanced on rollers : this portable... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pages
...destructive effect against the idolatrous and devoted city. " A. circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient...and darts ; the bullet and the battering-ram were erected against the same walls ; nor had the discovery of gunpowder" (of which also brimstone is an... | |
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A circumstance that distinguishes the siege of Constantinople is the reunion of the ancient and modern artillery. The cannon were intermingled with the mechanical engines for casting stones and darts; the bullet and the battering-ram were directed against... 
