 | 1832 - 852 Seiten
...Christian era, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia ; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster' '....( Gibbon , chap . bdv.) From this point of time, so emphatically marked by the historian, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...aera, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia;40 and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and...hereditary troops were multiplied in each campaign by the accession of captives and volunteers. Instead of retreating to the hills, he maintained the most useful... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 484 Seiten
...asra, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia. * ; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and...the same inroads ; and his hereditary troops were mulVOL. XL F f tiplied * See Pachymer, 1. xc 25. 26. 1. xiii. c. 33. 34. 36.; and concerning the guard... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...jera, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia * ; and the singular accuracy of.the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and...the twenty-seven years of his reign would exhibit a rcpetiiion of the same inroads ; and his hereditary troops were mulVOL. XL F f tiplied * See Pachymer,... | |
 | James Bicheno - 1808 - 376 Seiten
...era, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia ; and ttje singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster." In p. 34 1, he mforms us, that till now " all the emirs who had occupied the cities or the mountains,... | |
 | James Edward Clarke - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...Christian ara that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia ; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster." * The Othman empire is called a little horn from the great obscurity and insignificance of its commencement... | |
 | John Edward CLARKE - 1814 - 420 Seiten
...Christian sera that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster."* The Othman empire is called a little horn from the great obscurity and insignificance of its commencement... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 474 Seiten
...LxIV that Othman first invaded the territory of Ni"comedia;r and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and...of his reign would exhibit a repetition of the same iuroads ; and his hereditary troops were multiplied in each campaign by the accession of captives and... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 Seiten
...year 1299, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia, and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive growth of the monster." The progress of the Ottoman Turks may be thus briefly stated: — " In 1300, Anatolia is divided among... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 Seiten
...aera, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia *; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and...hereditary troops were multiplied in each campaign by the accession of captives and volunteers. Instead of retreating to the hills, he maintained the most useful... | |
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It was on the twenty-seventh of July, in the year twelve hundred and ninety-nine of the Christian aera, that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia *; and the singular accuracy of the date seems to disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive... 
