Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States, and TurkeyHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 582 pages |
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Abd-ul-Hamid ANSPESSADE arms army asked Austria Bajazet Bashi-bazouks battle began blood Bohemia cannon castle century chetniks Christian church command Constantinople Cossacks cried crowd cuirassiers czar death Dmitri Drevlianes Editor Emperor Empire enemy eyes face father fear fell fire followed force French gate Grivitsa guns gypsy hand head heard heart Hoja honor horses hundred Hungary Ilmarinen imperial Ivan Janizaries JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Joseph Haydn king Kuchum land looked Maria Theresa Marko Master Janos Mileff Moscow Napoleon never night officers Olga palace peasant Poland poor priests prince princely Marko replied retreat river round Rudolf Russian seemed seized sent shouted side Sobieski soldiers soon sovereign stood sultan sword Tartars thee thou thousand throne Timur Timur Lenk tion took town troops Turkish Turks turned village vizier Vladimir WALLENSTEIN walls words wounded Yermak young
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Page 458 - Constantine soon discovered that, in the decline of the arts, the skill as well as numbers of his architects bore a very unequal proportion to the greatness of his designs.
Page 422 - THEY rose to where their sovran eagle sails, They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height, Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk ; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone fight By thousands down the crags and thro
Page 422 - Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails, And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone flight By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales. O smallest among peoples ! rough rock-throne Of Freedom ! warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years, Great Tsernogora ! never since thine own Black ridges drew the cloud and brake the...
Page 460 - A particular description, composed about a century after its foundation, enumerates a capitol or school of learning, a circus, two theatres, eight public, and one hundred and fifty-three private baths, fifty-two porticoes, five granaries, eight aqueducts or reservoirs of water, four spacious halls for the meetings of the senate or courts of justice, fourteen churches, fourteen palaces, and four thousand three hundred and eightyeight houses, which, for their size or beauty, deserved to be distinguished...
Page 42 - Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Page 482 - In this perplexity, the genius of Mahomet conceived and executed a plan of a bold and marvellous cast, of transporting by land his lighter vessels and military stores from the Bosphorus into the higher part of the harbour.
Page 458 - The buildings of the new city were executed by such artificers as the reign of Constantine could afford ; but they were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters of the age of Pericles and Alexander. To revive the genius of Phidias and Lysippus, surpassed indeed tie power of a Roman emperor...
Page 482 - The reduction of the city appeared to be hopeless, unless a double attack could be made from the harbour as well as from the land ; but the harbour was inaccessible : an impenetrable chain was now defended by eight large ships, more than twenty of a smaller size, with several galleys and sloops ; and instead of forcing this barrier, the Turks might apprehend a naval sally, and a second encounter...
Page 515 - ... came out of this country. You may be sure that they were entirely spoiled before dinner was over. The sherbet (which is the liquor they drink at meals) was served in china bowls; but the covers and salvers massy gold. After dinner, water was brought in a gold basin, and towels of the same kind of the napkins, which I very unwillingly wiped my hands upon; and coffee was served in china, with gold soucoupes.
Page 484 - Mahomet had occupied the upper harbour with a fleet and army, he constructed, in the narrowest part, a bridge, or rather mole, of fifty cubits in breadth and one hundred in length ; it was formed of casks and hogsheads, joined with rafters linked with iron, and covered with a solid floor.