...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...

...Arabs have maintained a perpetual independence, acknowledges that these exceptions are temporary and to this day. The impression ; and that " the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest...

...might recover, by fraud or force, the portion of inheritance of which he had been unjustly deprived.— 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."—...

...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 Ctesar, of Trajan and Napoleon, have never achieved...

...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...

...conquered Arabia. Even Gibbon, while he labours hard against the argument founded on the fact, acknowledges that " the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies." The intercourse of the Persians with the Arabians had, long before the time of Mohammed, introduced...

...maintained a perpetual independence, yet he acknowledges that these exceptions are temporary and local, and that the body of the nation has escaped the yoke of the most powerful monarchies ; and the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia."...

...evade the force of the fact, that the Arabs have maintained a perpetual independence, acknowledges 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...

...addition to the empire. But the vaunted conquest only extended to a province ; so that of this and of other later foreign dominations Gibbon is obliged...human race, both in his physical and intellectual development.3 Certainly no mere advantages of country could have 1 Cicero, de Officiia, lib. i. cap....

...were frequently subdued, is obliged to confess that their subjection was but partial, and says, — " 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...