 | Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...feverely tried in the AHemannic war. After the defeat of Emefa, Zenobia found it impoffible to colled a third army. As far as the frontier of Egypt, the...her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous remittance, and declared with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the laft moment of her reign and of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1783 - 524 pages
...Probus, the braved of his generals, to pofiefs himfelf of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the lad refource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within...her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous refiflance, and declared with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the laft moment of her reign and of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1787 - 502 pages
...found it irapoffible to collect a third army. As far as the frontier of Egypt, the nations fubject to her empire had joined the ftandard of the conqueror,...that the laft moment of her reign and of her life should be the fame. Amid the barren deferts of Arabia, a few cul- The flat* tivated fpots rife like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...nations fubjeft to her empire had joined the ftandard of the conqueror, who detached Probus, the braved of his generals, to poflefs himfelf of the Egyptian...her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous refinance, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the laft moment of her reign and of... | |
 | History - 1788 - 638 pages
...braved of his generals, to poflefs himfelf of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the lad rcfource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within the...her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous refiitancc, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the lad moment of her reign and of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...possess himself of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odeuathus. She retired within the walls of her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous resistance, and declared with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the last moment of her reigu and of... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 592 pages
...circumstance, that we can scarcely distinguish them from each other. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within the...her capital ; made every preparation for a vigorous resistance ; and declared with the intrepidity of a heroine that the last moment of her reign and of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...bravest of his generals, to possess himself of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within the...her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous resistance, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the last moment of her reign and... | |
 | William Robson - Sieges - 1855 - 684 pages
...bravest of his generals, to possess himself of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within the...her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous resistance, and declared with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the last moment of her reign and her... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1868 - 670 pages
...bravest of his generals, to possess himself of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within the walls of her capital, made every prepaiation for a vigorous resistance, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the" last... | |
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Egypt, the nations subject to her empire had joined the standard of the conqueror, who detached Probus, the bravest of his generals, to possess himself of the Egyptian provinces. Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odenathus. She retired within... 
