 | John Charnock - Naval architecture - 1801 - 956 pages
...kingdoms of the west, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land, but an insuperable though narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many myriads of horse was not master of a single galley. The two passages... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable, though narrow, sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia; ^ and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land; but an insuperable, though narrow, sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia; and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads, of horse was not master of a single galley. The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...kingdoms of the west, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable though narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, aud the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable, though narrow, sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia ; M and the lord of so 58 A Sapor, king of Persia, had been made prisoner, and enclosed in... | |
 | George Finlay - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 556 pages
...these fleets, and that Timor did not § 2- cross the Bosphorus and lay waste the Serai of Adrianople, nor enter the walls of Constantinople ; but this must...narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans or myriads of horse was not master of a single galley."1 The... | |
 | George Finlay - Achaia (Greece) - 1851 - 548 pages
...these fleets, and that Timor did not § 2- cross the Bosphorus and lay waste the Serai of Adrianople, nor enter the walls of Constantinople ; but this must...narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans or myriads of horse was not master of a single galley."! The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...kingdoms of the west, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but y* and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land ; but an insuperable, though narrow, sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia,f and * A Sapor, king of Persia, had been made prisoner, and inclosed in the figure of a cow's... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...kingdoms of the west, which already trembled at his name. He touched the utmost verge of the land; but an insuperable though narrow sea rolled between the two continents of Europe and Asia, and the lord of so many tomans, or myriads of horse, was not master of a single galley. The... | |
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... the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour ; his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless, and his zeal might aspire to conquer and convert the Christian kingdoms of the West, which already trembled at his... 
