 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - 778 Seiten
...continent of Europe; and the Turkish capital has been threatened by a squadron of strong and lofty ships of war, each of which, with its naval science...thundering artillery, could have sunk or scattered a hundred canoes, such as those of their ancestors. Perhaps the ' present generation may yet behold... | |
 | 1854 - 816 Seiten
...continent of Europe ; and the Turkish capital has been threatened by a squadron of strong and lofty ships of war, each of which, with its naval science...style is unambiguous, and the date unquestionable.” — Gibbon's Roman Empire, voL v. cli. lv. In a note to the passage he gives his authorities, and adds:... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 Seiten
...continent of Europe; and the Turkish capital has been threatened by a squadron of strong and lofty ships of war, each of which, with its naval science...style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable. By land the Russians were less formidable than by sea; and as they fought for the most part on foot,... | |
 | 1855 - 648 Seiten
...distant : " Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction,—of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous, and the date unquestionable." — Decline and FaU, Milman's ed. 1846, voL v. p. 312. A reference to the Byzantine and monkish authorities... | |
 | 1856 - 778 Seiten
...Perhaps,' he •»ys, 'the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction—of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable.' "—The Times, Oct. 24, 1855. t "Ubicunque terrarum sunt, ibi est omne reipublicse presidium, vel potius... | |
 | James Ansley Hingeston - 1863 - 442 Seiten
...Perhaps,' he says, ' the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction—of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable.'"—The Times, Oct. 24th, 1855. •f " UKcungue terrarum sunt, ibi est omne reipublicos... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1872 - 474 Seiten
...expectation of the event. " Perhaps," he says, " the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable." The Turks themselves have long been under the shadow of its influence; even as early as the middle... | |
 | 1876 - 540 Seiten
...Russians in the last days would become masters of Constantinople ; and Gibbon remarks on this, that " the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of which the style is unambiguous, and the date unquestionable." Well, we are one hundred years older... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1877 - 200 Seiten
...threatened by a squadron of strong lofty ships of war, each of which could have sunk or scattered a hundred canoes, such as those of their ancestors....may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, a rare prediction, of which the style is unambiguous, and the date unquestionable.' Gibbon states that... | |
 | 1877 - 992 Seiten
...inscribed with a prophecy how the Russians iu the last days should become the masters of Constantinople. Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of which the style is unambiguous and the date unquestionable."f Bishop Wordsworth refers next to the... | |
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ships of war, each of which, with its naval science and thundering artillery, could have sunk or scattered an hundred canoes, such as those of their ancestors. Perhaps the present generation may yet behold the accomplishment of the prediction, of a rare... 
