 Yet these exceptions are temporary or local ; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia...  Mahometanism - Page 28by John Gibson Cazenove - 1856 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Whitaker - Byzantine Empire - 1791 - 276 pages
...fuperflu• ous.' He then mentions the exceptions, and adds: ' yet tbefe exceptions are temporary or local; the BODY ' OF THE NATION HAS ESCAPED THE YOKE OF THE ' MOST POWERFUL MONARCHIES; the arms of Sefof' tris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never ..' atchieve the cottqueft of... | |
 | Idumaea - Arabian Peninsula - 1799 - 204 pages
...Arabs have maintained a perpetual independence, acknowledges that these exceptions are temporary and local ; that the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; and that the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...have pitched their tents in the face of their brethren. Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies: the arms of Sesostris i and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia;... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Geography - 1810 - 410 pages
...hand is against them, and their's against every man, yet they dwell securely among their brethren. The body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies. The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Csesar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Bible - 1813 - 558 pages
...is against them, and theirs against every man's, yet they shall dwell securely among their brethren. The body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies. The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Caesar, of Trajan and Bonaparte, have never achieved... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
...agree with him, " that the exceptions to the independence of the Arabs are temporary and local, and that the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies." A good cause is materially injured by a weak argument, and no argument can be weaker than that which... | |
 | Richard Watson - Bible - 1832 - 1094 pages
...position with which it begins : "Yet these exceptions," says Mr. Gibbon, " are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...have pitched their tents in the face of their brethren. Yet these exceptions are temporary or local; the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies : the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Bible - 1834 - 318 pages
...hand is against Ishmael, and his against every man ; and yet he dwells securely among his brethren. The body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies. The arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Caesar, of Trajan and Napoleon, have never achieved... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...Arabs have maintained a perpetual independence, acknowledges that these exceptions are temporary and local; that the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies; and that " the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest... | |
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