 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...superior to that of the Christians': the double walls were reduced by the cannon to an heap of ruins : in a circuit of several miles, some places must be...Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his scymetar in one hand and his buckler in the other, he ascended the outward fortification : of the thirty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 pages
...superior to that of the Christians j the double walls were reduced by the cannon to an heap of ruins ; in a circuit of several miles, some places must be...irrecoverably lost. The first who deserved the Sultan's Cj 3 reward, * In the severe censure of the flight of Justinianf, Phranz?. expresses his own feelings... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 564 pages
...superior to that of the Christians ; the double walls were reduced by the cannon to an heap of ruins ; in a circuit of several miles, some places must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded j and if the besiegers could penetrate in a single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...deserved the sultan's reward was Hassan the Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his scymetar in one hand and his buckler in the other, he ascended the outward I'urtinVation : of the thirty Janizaries, who were emulous of his valour, eighteen perished in the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...superior to that of the Christians : the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins : in a circuit of several miles some places must be...single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost. Tbe first who deserved the sultan's reward was Hassan, the janizary, of gigantic stature and strength.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 492 pages
...deserved the sultan's reward was Hassan the janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his cimeter in one hand and his buckler in the other, he ascended the m In the severe censure of the flight of Justiniani, Phranza expresses his own feelings, and those... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1841 - 504 pages
...superior to that of the Christians : the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins : in a circuit of several miles, some places must be...stature and strength. With his scimitar in one hand and hie buckler in the other, he ascended the outward fortification : of the thirty Janizaries, who were... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 332 pages
...must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded ; and, if the besiegers could penetrate at a single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost....hand, and his buckler in the other, he ascended the outer fortification. Of the thirty janizaries who were emulous of his valor, eighteen perished in the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 pages
...double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins ; in a circuit of several miles, some place must be found more easy of access, or more feebly guarded ; and, if the besiegers could penetrate at a single point, the whole city was irrecoverably lost. The first who deserved the Sultan's reward,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 pages
...superior to that of the Christians ; the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins : in a circuit of several miles, some places must be...Janizary, of gigantic stature and strength. With his cimeter in one hand and his buckler in the other, he ascended the outward fortification : of the thirty... | |
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The number of the Ottomans was fifty, perhaps a hundred, times superior to that of the Christians; the double walls were reduced by the cannon to a heap of ruins: in a circuit of several miles, some places must be found more easy of access, or more feebly... 
