 | Joseph Hammond - 1881 - 608 Seiten
...subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasures, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing...been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen!... | |
 | John Mercer Patton - 1881 - 282 Seiten
...peace ; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Eiches and honours, power and pleasure have waited on my call, nor does any earthly pleasure seem to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 Seiten
...or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call; nor does...fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this world ! Gibbon's testimony is well supplemented by two women's : — For ages, happiness has been represented... | |
 | Joseph Berington - 1883 - 490 Seiten
...dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited OD my call, nor does any. earthly blessing appear to...! place not thy confidence in this present world." He was succeeded by his son Alhakem, who, with the sceptre, inherited the prosperity, the endowments,... | |
 | Joseph Berington - 1883 - 494 Seiten
...my enemies, and respected by my allies. R'iches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on niy call, nor does any. earthly blessing appear to have...! place not thy confidence in this present world." He was succeeded by his son Alhakem, who, with the sceptic, inherited the prosperity, the endowments,... | |
 | 1883 - 502 Seiten
...peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honor and power and pleasure have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1890 - 440 Seiten
...peace ; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call ; nor does...which have fallen to my lot : they amount to fourteen. 0 man, place not thy confidence in this present world ! " Nor are these all. Septimius Severus was... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1890 - 440 Seiten
...peace ; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call; nor does...of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to iny lot: they amount to fourteen. 0 man, place not thy confidence in this present world!" Nor are these... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 Seiten
...peace; beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does...any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to mv felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1893 - 464 Seiten
...the declaration of the envied Abdalrahman, one of the Ommiad Caliphs, which I take from Gibbon:— I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine...which have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen. 0 man! place not thy confidence in the present world." And compare Abdalrahman's lot with that of the... | |
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have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace : beloved by " my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. " Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, " nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been... 
