 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 470 pages
...nobles, who fought round his perfon, fuftained till their lait breath the honourable names of Palseologus and Cantacuzene : his mournful exclamation was heard, " Cannot there be found a Chriftian to " cut off my head (60) ?" and his laft fear was that of falling alive into the hands of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1789 - 372 pages
...was long feen, and finally loft. The nobles , who fought round his perfon , fuftained till their laft breath the honourable names of Palaeologus and Cantacuzene...exclamation was heard , " Cannot there be " found a Chriftian to cut off my head '"?" and his laft fear was that of falling alive into the hands of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by encreasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor," who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier,...nobles, who fought round his person, sustained till 58 In the severe censure of the flight of Justiniani, Phranza expresses his own feelings, and those... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 564 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the Emperor *, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier,...sustained, till their last breath, the honourable names of Palxologus and Cnntacuzene : his mournful exclamation was heard, " Cannot there be found a Christian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 558 pages
...who fought round his person, sustained, till their last breath, the honourable names of Palseologus and Cantacuzene : his mournful exclamation was heard,...Cannot there be found a Christian to cut " off my head f ?" and his last fear was that of falling * Ducas kills him with two blows of Turkish soldiers j Chalccndyles... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor19, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier,...round his person, sustained till their last breath 58 In the severe censure of the flight of Justinian!, Pli ran za expresses his »•vu feelings, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor,59 who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier, was long seen, and finally lost. The nobles, who (ought round his person, sustained till their last breath the honourable names of Palieologus and Cantacuzene:... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier,...Cannot there be found a Christian to cut off my head 1" and his last fear was that of falling alive into the hands of the infidels. The prudent despair... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier,...sustained till their last breath the honourable names of Palseologus and Cantacuzene: his mournful exclamation was heard,— " Cannot there be found a Christian... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier,...sustained till their last breath the honourable names of Palseologus and Cantacuzene : his mournful exclamation was heard, — " Cannot there be found a Christian... | |
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Greeks, now driven from the vantage ground, were overwhelmed by increasing multitudes. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier, was long seen and finally lost. The nobles, who fought round his person,... 
