 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 σελίδες
...renounce the conquest of Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or ransom of the Roman empire : a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of...robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms, but the time and space which he obtained to collect such... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 398 σελίδες
...Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or ransom of the Romim empire: a thousand ta lents of gold, a thousand talents of silver, a thousand...silk robes, a thousand horses and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed theseignomiuious terms, but the time and space which he obtained to collect such... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 σελίδες
...renounce the conquest of Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or ransom of the Roman Empire : a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of...robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms; but the time and space which he obtained to collect such... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 484 σελίδες
...the conquest of Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or ransom of the Roman Sovereignty; a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of silver, a thousand silken robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 σελίδες
...the conquest of Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or the ransom of the ROMAN EMPIRE : a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of...robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms. But the time and space which he obtained to collect those... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 σελίδες
...the conquest of Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or the ransom of the ROMAN EMPIRE : a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of...silver, a thousand silk robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand-virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms. But the time and space which he obtained... | |
 | Carl von Rotteck - 1841 - 508 σελίδες
...he opposed his formidable enemy. Koshru took finally (622), as the price of an armistice, a yearly tribute of a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of silver, a thousand silken garments, a thousand horses, and a thousand girls. From this depth of ignominy and distress,... | |
 | Josiah Litch - 1842 - 264 σελίδες
...conquest of Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or the ransom of the ROMAN EMI-IKE : a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of...robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms. But the time and space which he obtained to collect those... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 σελίδες
...Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or ransom of the Roman empire: a thousand talents ol gold, a thousand talents of silver, a thousand silk...robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. Heraclius subscribed these ignominious terms, but the time and space which h« obtained to collect... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1852 - 308 σελίδες
...nothing of Mohammed, the name subscribed, and contemptuously tore the letter. On hearing the manner * " A thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of...robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins." Gibbon, Dec. and Fall, chap, 46. in which his missive had been received, the Arab is said to have exclaimed,... | |
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Constantinople, and to specify the annual tribute or ransom of the Roman empire: a thousand talents of gold, a thousand talents of silver, a thousand silk robes, a thousand horses, and a thousand virgins. 
