 | Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bülent Gökay - 2001 - 208 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible force upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.' Doctor Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prime of Abyssinia, first published in 1759 (Shorter Novels,... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson - 2018 - 240 Seiten
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the 10 sudden descent of some of the naked natives that swarm on the... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1958 - 192 Seiten
...sky ? . . . A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.' From all of which it would appear that it may be dangerous to accept without qualification the customary... | |
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But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the... 
