 ... of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and...  The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. - Strana 259autor/autoři: Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 str.
...instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople as the palladium of the state. The gallies and artillery... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 str.
...instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state; the gillies and... | |
 | 1838 - 518 str.
...fire-ships, the victims and instruments of a more ample reTenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which planted on the prow of...length either discovered or stolen by the Mohammedans ; anil in the holy wars of Syria and Egypt they retorted an invention contrived against themselves... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - 1840 - 722 str.
...light with its flame, that we saw in our camps as clearly as in broad day." As these combustibles were fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters,...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire, they prohably gave rise to those tales, so current at the period of the Crusades, of encounters with... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 550 str.
...instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths ci savage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming- fire. This important art... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1844 - 546 str.
...revenge, ana was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the-prow 01 a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the galleys and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 str.
...copper, which were planted on the prow ol a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of gavage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the galleys and... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 328 str.
...his skill in astronomy and the mathematical sciences. He dedicated one of his works to the Khaliph galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. . . . ' It came flying through the air,' says Joinville (the historian of the crusade of St. Louis,... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1855 - 392 str.
...and instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire." The passages marked in italics point out very clearly several points of striking resemblance between... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1853 - 388 str.
...light with its flame, that we saw in our camps as clearly as in broad day." As these combustibles were fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters,...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire, they probably gave rise to those tales, so current at the period of the Crusades, of encounters with... | |
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