 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...meditating, and almost accomplishing, the invasion of the Chinese empire ? From the Irtish and the Volga to the Persian Gulf, and from the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the the hand of Timour. He aspired to conquer the Christian kingdoms of the west. He is said to have designed... | |
 | John Charnock - Naval architecture - 1801 - 956 pages
...to that of the conqueror of Bajazet. From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian gulph, says history, from the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hands of Timour. His armies were invincible, his ambition boundless, and his zeal might aspire to conquer... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 558 pages
...restored by the conqueror to their lawful sovereigns. From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulph, and from the Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour ; his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless, ." „ and * A Sapor, King... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...thousand others, were sacked, or burnt, or utterly destroyed, in liis presence, and by his troops. — From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian gulf, and...Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour ; his armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless ;' and it was on his march... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...Timour in person, who put all the. garrison to death. The conquests of this Tartar now extended from die Irtish and Volga to the Persian gulf, and from the Ganges to the Archipelago } and the terror of his name was felt beyond these limits. The want of shipping prevented... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...intrepidity and prowess, in personal combats and pitched battles, drew upon him universal admiration. From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulf, and...Ganges to Damascus and the Archipelago, Asia was in the hand of Timour. His armies were invincible, his ambition was boundless, and his zeal aspired to conquer... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...were overrun by this barbarian. ' From the Irtish and Volga,' says Gibbon, ' to the Persian Gulph, and from 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... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...were overrun by this barbarian. ' From the Irtish and Volga,' says Gibbon, ' to the'Persiari Gulpb, and from 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...were overrun by this barbarian. ' From the Irtish and Volga,' says Gibbon, ' to the Persian Gulph, and from 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... | |
 | John Ranking - Circus - 1826 - 560 pages
...loads, to the amazement of the people. At the death of the nephew of Hadgi Berlas, his empire reached from the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulf; and from the Indus, (for he did not keep possession of Hindostan), to Damascus and the Grecian Archipelago. Including... | |
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From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulf, and from 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... 
