 | Edward William Whitaker - 1795 - 318 pages
...thundered at once '* on the moft acceffible places; and at " one of thefe it is atnbiguoufly ex" preffed, that it was mounted with one " hundred and thirty guns, or that it •' difcharged one hundred and thirty " bullets." With fuch engines was " Conftantinople, the capital... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1800 - 420 pages
...thundered at once on the moft acceffible places ; and at one of thefe it is ambiguoufly exprefled, that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns, or that it difcharged one hundred and thirty bullets." With fuch engines was Conftantinople, the capital of the... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1801 - 400 pages
...thundered at once on the moft acceflible places ; and at one of thefe it is ambiguoufly exprefled, that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns, or that it difcharged one hundred and thirty bullets." With fuch engines was Con-c ftantinople, the capital of... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 420 pages
...thundered at once on the moft acceffible places ; and at one of thefe it is ambiguoufly exprefled, that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns,...that it discharged one hundred and thirty bullets.'* With fuch engines was Conftantinople, the (capital of the world, overthrown : and thus » i . ii .... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...fellows almost of equal magnitude : the long order of Turkish artillery was pointed against the wall ; fourteen batteries thundered at once on the most accessible...is ambiguously expressed, that it was mounted with a hundred and thirty guns, or that it discharged a hundred and thirty bullets," — " a circumstance... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...history of the times : but that enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude; . . the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed...these it is ambiguously expressed, that it was mounted CHAP. with one hundred and thirty guns, or that it disL - charged one hundred and thirty bullets. Yet,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...history of the times ; but that enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude ; the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed...activity of the Sultan we may discern the infancy of the new science ; under a master who counted the moments, the great cannon could be loaded and fired no... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...history of the times; but that enormous engine was flanked hv two fallows almost of equal magnitude ; the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed...that it discharged one hundred and thirty bullets. Vet in the power and activity of the Sultan we may discern the infancy of the new science ; under a... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pages
...history of the times; but that enormous engine was Hanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude ; the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed...against the walls ; fourteen batteries thundered at once * Gibbon's Hist. ib. pp. 197, 193, 199, on the most accessible places, and of one of these it is ambiguously... | |
 | 1832 - 280 pages
...Turkish artillery was pointed against the wall ; fourteen batteries thundered at once on the niost accessible places ; and of one of these it is ambiguously expressed, that it was mounted with a hundred and thirty guns, or that t* discharged a hundred and thirty bullets." Per. 19, For their... | |
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Mahomet has been separately noticed; an important and visible object in the history of the times: but that enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude: the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed against the walls; fourteen... 
