Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled them from a distance with a cloud of arrows, and the horses and men were successively slain: a truce was allowed on both sides for the hour of prayer; and the battle at length expired by... The Twentieth Century - Página 5881902Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset, or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites was invincible; but the surrounding multitudes galled...expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hosein. Alone, weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. As he tasted a drop of... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1807 - 366 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset, or single combat, the despair o the Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...of arrows, and the horses and men were successively slam: a truce was allowed on both sides for. the hour of prayer; and the battle at length expired,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset, or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...horses and men were successively slain; a truce was CHAP, allowed on both sides for the hour of prayer ; u and the battle at length expired by the death... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 478 páginas
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| 1872 - 858 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset or single combat the despair of the Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...the death of the last of the companions of Hussein." The details of Hussein's own death will come better presently; suffice it at this moment to say he... | |
| William Richard Holmes - 1845 - 446 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hossein. Alone, weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. As he tasted a drop... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 630 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset, or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites wns invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...battle at length expired by the death of the last companions of Hosein. Alone, weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. As he tasted... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 566 páginas
...Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitude galled them from -I AD 680.] DEATH OF HOSEIN. a distance with a cloud of arrows, and the horses...expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hosein. Alone, weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. As he tasted a drop of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset, or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hosein. Alone, weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. As he tasted a drop of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 páginas
...partnership of inevitable death. In every close onset, or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites was invincible ; but the surrounding multitudes galled...expired by the death of the last of the companions of Hosein. Alone, weary, and wounded, he seated himself at the door of his tent. As he tasted a drop of... | |
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