 ... their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious; it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians, and in the familiar intercourse of war they learned to see and to despise the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia. From...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 97 페이지저자: Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 399 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 474 페이지
...the familiar intercou ríe of war, they learned to fee, and to defpife, the fplendid weaknefs both of Rome and of Perfia. From Mecca to the Euphrates, the...general appellation of Saracens; a name which every Chnflian mouth has been taught to pronounce with terror and abhorrence. " The flavcs of domeflic tyranny... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1807 - 492 페이지
...province of the Perfian empire ; yet feven princes of the Homerites (till reigned in the mountains ; and from Mecca to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes were confounded by the Greeks and Latins, under the ge.r neral appellation of SARACENS. The dignities of fheich and emir, in every tribe, is appropriated... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 페이지
...intereourfe of war, they leainid to fee, and to ilefpife, the fplendid weaknefi, both of Rome and of Perlia. From Mecca to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes were confounded by the G.'ecks and J^atir/s, under the general appellation of .Sanicens ; a name which every Cluiili.m mouth... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 페이지
...intercourse of war, they learned to see and to despise the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia. From Mecca to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes were...confounded by the Greeks and Latins, under the general name of SARACENS, a name which every Christian mouth has been taught to pronounce with terror and abhorrence?... | |
 | Socrates (Scholasticus) - 1853 - 510 페이지
...account of the Saracens, their origin, &c., see Gibbon's Decl. and Fall, chap. 1. He remarks, that " From Mecca to the Euphrates the Arabian tribes were...Latins under the general appellation of Saracens." In a foot note on the same chap, he enters into, an interesting question as to the origin of the name.... | |
 | Socrates (Scholasticus) - 1853 - 546 페이지
...account of the Saracens, their origin, &c., see Gibbon's Decl. and Fall, chap. 1. He remarks, that " From Mecca to the Euphrates the Arabian tribes were confounded by the Gre'jks and Latins under the general appellation of Saracens." In a foot note on the same chap, he... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 428 페이지
...beautiful crowns on their heads ; " the wilderness" distinguishing their locality as Arabian.d a " From Mecca to the Euphrates the Arabian tribes were...confounded by the Greeks and Latins under the general name of SABACENS — a name which every Christian mouth has been taught to pronounce with terror and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 페이지
...the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia. From Mecca to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes 29 were confounded by the Greeks and Latins under the general appellation of SARACENS,30 a name which every Christian mouth has been taught to pronounce with terror and abhorrence.... | |
 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1862 - 416 페이지
...I860. t When Mahomet erected bis standard, the kingdom of Yemen was a province of the Persian Empire. From Mecca to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes were...Latins, under the general appellation of " Saracens." — Oibbon. However, having been so long accustomed to consider the Moguls a tribe of Tartars and so... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 페이지
...intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia. From Mecca to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes were confounded by the Greeks and Latins, under the 4general appellation of Saracens,— a name which every Christian mouth has been taught to pronounce... | |
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